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| -rw-r--r-- | net/mac80211/rx.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c index bb73ed2d20b9..acf006f2d61a 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/rx.c +++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c @@ -1894,8 +1894,10 @@ ieee80211_deliver_skb(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx) * 'align' will only take the values 0 or 2 here * since all frames are required to be aligned * to 2-byte boundaries when being passed to - * mac80211. That also explains the __skb_push() - * below. + * mac80211; the code here works just as well if + * that isn't true, but mac80211 assumes it can + * access fields as 2-byte aligned (e.g. for + * compare_ether_addr) */ align = ((unsigned long)(skb->data + sizeof(struct ethhdr))) & 3; if (align) { |