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brcmfmac: use ndev->needed_headroom to reserve additional header space

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When using nmap tool with FMAC, the nmap packets were be dropped by kernel
because the size was too short. The kernel message showed like
"nmap: packet size is too short (42 <= 50)". It is caused by the packet
length is shorter than ndev->hard_header_len. According to definition of
LL_RESERVED_SPACE() and hard_header_len, we should use hard_header_len
to reserve for L2 header, like ethernet header(ETH_HLEN) in our case and
use needed_headroom for the additional headroom needed by hardware.

Reviewed-by: Arend Van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Wright Feng <wright.feng@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
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Wright Feng 2016-06-03 23:31:09 +02:00 committed by Kalle Valo
parent d922dfa372
commit cb39288fd6
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drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c
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@ -516,7 +516,7 @@ int brcmf_net_attach(struct brcmf_if *ifp, bool rtnl_locked)
/* set appropriate operations */
ndev->netdev_ops = &brcmf_netdev_ops_pri;
ndev->hard_header_len += drvr->hdrlen;
ndev->needed_headroom += drvr->hdrlen;
ndev->ethtool_ops = &brcmf_ethtool_ops;
drvr->rxsz = ndev->mtu + ndev->hard_header_len +