From 6096de7fd4eeda305e114e7d74e6f47404590425 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Berg Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 11:18:10 +0100 Subject: mac80211: add helper to free TX skb Drivers that need to drop a frame before it can be transmitted will usually simply free that frame. This is currently fine, but in the future it'll be needed to tell mac80211 about this case, so add a new routine that frees a TX skb. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville --- include/net/mac80211.h | 10 ++++++++++ net/mac80211/status.c | 6 ++++++ 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h index eddf492..b9b9c94 100644 --- a/include/net/mac80211.h +++ b/include/net/mac80211.h @@ -1309,6 +1309,16 @@ ieee80211_get_alt_retry_rate(const struct ieee80211_hw *hw, } /** + * ieee80211_free_txskb - free TX skb + * @hw: the hardware + * @skb: the skb + * + * Free a transmit skb. Use this funtion when some failure + * to transmit happened and thus status cannot be reported. + */ +void ieee80211_free_txskb(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb); + +/** * DOC: Hardware crypto acceleration * * mac80211 is capable of taking advantage of many hardware diff --git a/net/mac80211/status.c b/net/mac80211/status.c index df643ce..e1f6954 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/status.c +++ b/net/mac80211/status.c @@ -609,3 +609,9 @@ void ieee80211_report_low_ack(struct ieee80211_sta *pubsta, u32 num_packets) num_packets, GFP_ATOMIC); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(ieee80211_report_low_ack); + +void ieee80211_free_txskb(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb) +{ + dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(ieee80211_free_txskb); -- cgit v1.1