From 6fe04128f158c5ad27e7504bfdf1b12e63331bc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
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: e495c24731a2 ("mac80211: extend fast-xmit for more ciphers")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
---
 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 c8b8ccc370eb..78b0ef32dddd 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;
 };
-- 
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