Skip to content

Commit

Permalink
ath9k: This patch fix RX unpadding for any received frame.
Browse files Browse the repository at this point in the history
It has been tested with a 802.11 frame generator and by checking the FCS field
of each received frame with the value reported by the Atheros hardware. This
patch is useful if you are trying to analyze non standard 802.11 frame going
over the air.

Signed-off-by: Benoit PAPILLAULT <benoit.papillault@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
  • Loading branch information
Benoit PAPILLAULT authored and John W. Linville committed Nov 23, 2009
1 parent ac2752c commit 8c35024
Showing 1 changed file with 14 additions and 5 deletions.
19 changes: 14 additions & 5 deletions drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/common.c
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -231,26 +231,35 @@ void ath9k_cmn_rx_skb_postprocess(struct ath_common *common,
{
struct ath_hw *ah = common->ah;
struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr;
int hdrlen, padsize;
int hdrlen, padpos, padsize;
u8 keyix;
__le16 fc;

/* see if any padding is done by the hw and remove it */
hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *) skb->data;
hdrlen = ieee80211_get_hdrlen_from_skb(skb);
padpos = 24;
fc = hdr->frame_control;
if ((fc & cpu_to_le16(IEEE80211_FCTL_FROMDS|IEEE80211_FCTL_TODS)) ==
cpu_to_le16(IEEE80211_FCTL_FROMDS|IEEE80211_FCTL_TODS)) {
padpos += 6; /* ETH_ALEN */
}
if ((fc & cpu_to_le16(IEEE80211_STYPE_QOS_DATA|IEEE80211_FCTL_FTYPE)) ==
cpu_to_le16(IEEE80211_STYPE_QOS_DATA|IEEE80211_FTYPE_DATA)) {
padpos += 2;
}

/* The MAC header is padded to have 32-bit boundary if the
* packet payload is non-zero. The general calculation for
* padsize would take into account odd header lengths:
* padsize = (4 - hdrlen % 4) % 4; However, since only
* padsize = (4 - padpos % 4) % 4; However, since only
* even-length headers are used, padding can only be 0 or 2
* bytes and we can optimize this a bit. In addition, we must
* not try to remove padding from short control frames that do
* not have payload. */
padsize = hdrlen & 3;
if (padsize && hdrlen >= 24) {
memmove(skb->data + padsize, skb->data, hdrlen);
padsize = padpos & 3;
if (padsize && skb->len>=padpos+padsize+FCS_LEN) {
memmove(skb->data + padsize, skb->data, padpos);
skb_pull(skb, padsize);
}

Expand Down

0 comments on commit 8c35024

Please sign in to comment.