mac80211: implement multicast forwarding on fast-RX path
authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 15:47:43 +0000 (16:47 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 26 Jan 2017 07:24:39 +0000 (08:24 +0100)
commitbab10a549fd64e36f06c995d6adf22c0413e9379
tree495dedc138ca26bf2628c5cac8734a0a0bf163a8
parentbeecb1e72cc5af0921c9daf75c404408744822cd
mac80211: implement multicast forwarding on fast-RX path

commit eeb0d56fab4cd7848cf2be6704fa48900dbc1381 upstream.

In AP (or VLAN) mode, when unicast 802.11 packets are received,
they might actually be multicast after conversion. In this case
the fast-RX path didn't handle them properly to send them back
to the wireless medium. Implement that by copying the SKB and
sending it back out.

The possible alternative would be to just punt the packet back
to the regular (slow) RX path, but since we have almost all of
the required code here already it's not so complicated to add
here. Punting it back would also mean acquiring the spinlock,
which would be bad for the stated purpose of the fast-RX path,
to enable well-performing parallel RX.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/mac80211/rx.c