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authorInaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>2009-09-30 01:28:24 +0200
committerInaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>2009-10-19 08:56:12 +0200
commit9835fd84990ca253c5b625005717a9be492788c0 (patch)
tree9daa36006886eecf80fe5c715049ef8307aecc0a /drivers
parentwimax/i2400m: reduce verbosity of debug messages in boot mode (diff)
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wimax/i2400m: fix race condition with tcpdump et al
tcpdump and friends were not being able to decode packets sent via WiMAX; they had a zero ethernet type, even when the stack was properly sending them to the device with the right type. It happens that the driver was overwriting the (fake) ethernet header for creating the hardware header and that was bitting the cloning used by tcpdump (et al) to look into the packets. Use pkskb_expand_head() [method copied from the e1000 driver] to fix. Thanks to Herbert Xu and Andi Kleen for helping to diagnose and pointing to the right fix. Cc: Herbert Xu <gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/netdev.c21
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/netdev.c b/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/netdev.c
index fefd794087ad..e7d1a51ee3fe 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/netdev.c
@@ -358,6 +358,20 @@ netdev_tx_t i2400m_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
int result;
d_fnstart(3, dev, "(skb %p net_dev %p)\n", skb, net_dev);
+ if (skb_header_cloned(skb)) {
+ /*
+ * Make tcpdump/wireshark happy -- if they are
+ * running, the skb is cloned and we will overwrite
+ * the mac fields in i2400m_tx_prep_header. Expand
+ * seems to fix this...
+ */
+ result = pskb_expand_head(skb, 0, 0, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ if (result) {
+ result = NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
+ goto error_expand;
+ }
+ }
+
if (i2400m->state == I2400M_SS_IDLE)
result = i2400m_net_wake_tx(i2400m, net_dev, skb);
else
@@ -368,10 +382,11 @@ netdev_tx_t i2400m_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
net_dev->stats.tx_packets++;
net_dev->stats.tx_bytes += skb->len;
}
+ result = NETDEV_TX_OK;
+error_expand:
kfree_skb(skb);
-
- d_fnend(3, dev, "(skb %p net_dev %p)\n", skb, net_dev);
- return NETDEV_TX_OK;
+ d_fnend(3, dev, "(skb %p net_dev %p) = %d\n", skb, net_dev, result);
+ return result;
}