From 07f6c5108ad4d108501c963872b4e3226a0d411e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Felix Fietkau Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 17:34:38 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: fix fast_tx header alignment The header field is defined as u8[] but also accessed as struct ieee80211_hdr. Enforce an alignment of 2 to prevent unnecessary unaligned accesses, which can be very harmful for performance on many platforms. Fixes: a9e03fdb8993 ("mac80211: extend fast-xmit for more ciphers") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg --- net/mac80211/sta_info.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/mac80211/sta_info.h b/net/mac80211/sta_info.h index c8b8ccc370eb7..78b0ef32ddddd 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.h +++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.h @@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ struct ieee80211_fast_tx { u8 sa_offs, da_offs, pn_offs; u8 band; u8 hdr[30 + 2 + IEEE80211_FAST_XMIT_MAX_IV + - sizeof(rfc1042_header)]; + sizeof(rfc1042_header)] __aligned(2); struct rcu_head rcu_head; }; -- 2.39.5