mac80211: allow passing transmitter station on RX
Sometimes drivers already looked up, or know out-of-band
from their device, which station transmitted a given RX
frame. Allow them to pass the station pointer to mac80211
to save the extra lookup.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
index 009bb90..212b999 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -3552,6 +3552,7 @@
* be called with rcu_read_lock protection.
*/
static void __ieee80211_rx_handle_packet(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
+ struct ieee80211_sta *pubsta,
struct sk_buff *skb,
struct napi_struct *napi)
{
@@ -3561,7 +3562,6 @@
__le16 fc;
struct ieee80211_rx_data rx;
struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *prev;
- struct sta_info *sta, *prev_sta;
struct rhash_head *tmp;
int err = 0;
@@ -3597,7 +3597,14 @@
ieee80211_is_beacon(hdr->frame_control)))
ieee80211_scan_rx(local, skb);
- if (ieee80211_is_data(fc)) {
+ if (pubsta) {
+ rx.sta = container_of(pubsta, struct sta_info, sta);
+ rx.sdata = rx.sta->sdata;
+ if (ieee80211_prepare_and_rx_handle(&rx, skb, true))
+ return;
+ goto out;
+ } else if (ieee80211_is_data(fc)) {
+ struct sta_info *sta, *prev_sta;
const struct bucket_table *tbl;
prev_sta = NULL;
@@ -3671,8 +3678,8 @@
* This is the receive path handler. It is called by a low level driver when an
* 802.11 MPDU is received from the hardware.
*/
-void ieee80211_rx_napi(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb,
- struct napi_struct *napi)
+void ieee80211_rx_napi(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_sta *pubsta,
+ struct sk_buff *skb, struct napi_struct *napi)
{
struct ieee80211_local *local = hw_to_local(hw);
struct ieee80211_rate *rate = NULL;
@@ -3771,7 +3778,8 @@
ieee80211_tpt_led_trig_rx(local,
((struct ieee80211_hdr *)skb->data)->frame_control,
skb->len);
- __ieee80211_rx_handle_packet(hw, skb, napi);
+
+ __ieee80211_rx_handle_packet(hw, pubsta, skb, napi);
rcu_read_unlock();