From: Felix Fietkau Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 17:32:13 +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 --- --- 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; };