From: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:52:59 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: wireless: use netif_rx_ni in ieee80211_send_layer2_update
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.35~25^2~1^2~1
X-Git-Url: https://openfabrics.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=06ee1c261360545c97fd836fff9dbd10ebd9301b;p=~shefty%2Frdma-dev.git

wireless: use netif_rx_ni in ieee80211_send_layer2_update

These synthetic frames are all triggered from userland requests in
process context.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16412

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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diff --git a/net/mac80211/cfg.c b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
index c7000a6ca37..67ee34f57df 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
@@ -632,7 +632,7 @@ static void ieee80211_send_layer2_update(struct sta_info *sta)
 	skb->dev = sta->sdata->dev;
 	skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, sta->sdata->dev);
 	memset(skb->cb, 0, sizeof(skb->cb));
-	netif_rx(skb);
+	netif_rx_ni(skb);
 }
 
 static void sta_apply_parameters(struct ieee80211_local *local,