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mac80211: Account HT Control field in Data frame hdrlen according to 802.11n-2009

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ieee80211_hdrlen() should account account new HT Control field in 802.11
data frame header introduced by IEEE 802.11n standard.

According to 802.11n-2009 HT Control field is present in data frames
when both of following are met:

   1. It is QoS data frame.
   2. Order bit is set in Frame Control field.

The change might be totally compatible with legacy non-11n aware frames,
because 802.11-2007 standard states that "all QoS STAs set this subfield
to 0".

Signed-off-by: Andriy V. Tkachuk <andrit@ukr.net>
Acked-by : Benoit Papillault <benoit.papillault@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Andriy Tkachuk
2010-01-20 13:55:06 +02:00
committed by John W. Linville
parent ef15aac607
commit d0dd2de0d0
2 changed files with 6 additions and 1 deletions
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@@ -227,8 +227,11 @@ unsigned int ieee80211_hdrlen(__le16 fc)
if (ieee80211_is_data(fc)) {
if (ieee80211_has_a4(fc))
hdrlen = 30;
if (ieee80211_is_data_qos(fc))
if (ieee80211_is_data_qos(fc)) {
hdrlen += IEEE80211_QOS_CTL_LEN;
if (ieee80211_has_order(fc))
hdrlen += IEEE80211_HT_CTL_LEN;
}
goto out;
}