diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c
index ce1f7bbd3d7a4644bee999d361f0a2e844887075..9ea677320daa672e98b96e1945b261b199845433 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c
@@ -565,13 +565,9 @@ void rt2x00lib_rxdone(struct queue_entry *entry,
 
 	/*
 	 * The data behind the ieee80211 header must be
-	 * aligned on a 4 byte boundary. We already reserved
-	 * 2 bytes for header_size % 4 == 2 optimization.
-	 * To determine the number of bytes which the data
-	 * should be moved to the left, we must add these
-	 * 2 bytes to the header_size.
+	 * aligned on a 4 byte boundary.
 	 */
-	align = (header_size + 2) % 4;
+	align = ((unsigned long)(entry->skb->data + header_size)) & 3;
 
 	if (align) {
 		skb_push(entry->skb, align);