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Subject: Re: WARNING from mac80211
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 14:55 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> Johannes and John,
> 
> A regression in recent versions of mac80211 are generating the WARNING at 
> net/mac80211/wep.c:101, because the skb headroom is less than WEP_IV_LEN or the 
> tailroom is less than WEP_ICV_LEN. My testing indicates that it is a headroom 
> problem as the following hack "fixes" it:

See also this thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/69062/focus=69150

and the resulting patch:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/69190
(not sure why it was RFC?)

johannes