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Commit f49e3a9a authored by Felix Fietkau's avatar Felix Fietkau Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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mac80211: round IEEE80211_TX_STATUS_HEADROOM up to multiple of 4



[ Upstream commit 651b9920d7a694ffb1f885aef2bbb068a25d9d66 ]

This ensures that mac80211 allocated management frames are properly
aligned, which makes copying them more efficient.
For instance, mt76 uses iowrite32_copy to copy beacon frames to beacon
template memory on the chip.
Misaligned 32-bit accesses cause CPU exceptions on MIPS and should be
avoided.

Signed-off-by: default avatarFelix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 020c32a9
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