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 <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index eddf49202c50f6eb1956ed78f2256185b801bc60..b9b9c9452131a49eb640cd39592b1b3ee6d3365a 100644 (file)
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -1308,6 +1308,16 @@ ieee80211_get_alt_retry_rate(const struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
        return &hw->wiphy->bands[c->band]->bitrates[c->control.rates[idx + 1].idx];
 }
 
+/**
+ * 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
  *

diff --git a/net/mac80211/status.c b/net/mac80211/status.c
index df643cedf9b9e17514281a811189e902f1411b6a..e1f69545974aded01045af8a774d7bc2928e2537 100644 (file)
--- 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);