So, did the patch below fix the problem? Should I apply it? John
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 11:02:16PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 01:00:44PM +0000, Shaddy Baddah wrote: > > > > It hasn't seemed to. I patched the source (confirming the patched lines > > are in), compiled, installed and rebooted to effect the changes. My > > zd1211rw modules timestamp indicates that I have an updated module: > > Thanks for your quick response and sorry for my late answer :) > > I think Dave's patch is definietly on the right track but there > are subsequent unaligned accesses of a similar kind which is > why it still appears to be broken if you look at the kernel > messages. > > But there is definitely progress because those addresses are now > bigger (0x394/0x39c/0x3a8 vs. 0x2** earlier). > > So please try the following patch (instead of the original one) > which should fix all the unailgned accesses in do_rx. > > Cheers, > -- > Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ > Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ > PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt > -- > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_mac.c > b/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_mac.c > index a903645..d06b05b 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_mac.c > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_mac.c > @@ -1166,15 +1166,16 @@ static void do_rx(unsigned long mac_ptr) > int zd_mac_rx_irq(struct zd_mac *mac, const u8 *buffer, unsigned int length) > { > struct sk_buff *skb; > + unsigned int hlen = ALIGN(sizeof(struct zd_rt_hdr), 16); > > - skb = dev_alloc_skb(sizeof(struct zd_rt_hdr) + length); > + skb = dev_alloc_skb(hlen + length); > if (!skb) { > struct ieee80211_device *ieee = zd_mac_to_ieee80211(mac); > dev_warn(zd_mac_dev(mac), "Could not allocate skb.\n"); > ieee->stats.rx_dropped++; > return -ENOMEM; > } > - skb_reserve(skb, sizeof(struct zd_rt_hdr)); > + skb_reserve(skb, hlen - ZD_PLCP_HEADER_SIZE); > memcpy(__skb_put(skb, length), buffer, length); > skb_queue_tail(&mac->rx_queue, skb); > tasklet_schedule(&mac->rx_tasklet); > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
