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-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/txrx.c18
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/txrx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/txrx.c
index 348c6463fe0..0869ff396b5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/txrx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/txrx.c
@@ -317,6 +317,24 @@ int ath6kl_data_tx(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
spin_unlock_bh(&ar->lock);
+ if (!IS_ALIGNED((unsigned long) skb->data - HTC_HDR_LENGTH, 4) &&
+ skb_cloned(skb)) {
+ /*
+ * We will touch (move the buffer data to align it. Since the
+ * skb buffer is cloned and not only the header is changed, we
+ * have to copy it to allow the changes. Since we are copying
+ * the data here, we may as well align it by reserving suitable
+ * headroom to avoid the memmove in ath6kl_htc_tx_buf_align().
+ */
+ struct sk_buff *nskb;
+
+ nskb = skb_copy_expand(skb, HTC_HDR_LENGTH, 0, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ if (nskb == NULL)
+ goto fail_tx;
+ kfree_skb(skb);
+ skb = nskb;
+ }
+
cookie->skb = skb;
cookie->map_no = map_no;
set_htc_pkt_info(&cookie->htc_pkt, cookie, skb->data, skb->len,