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+From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
+Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 19:46:54 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: round IEEE80211_TX_STATUS_HEADROOM up to multiple
+ of 4
+
+This ensures that mac80211 allocated management frames are properly
+aligned, which makes copying them more efficient.
+For instance, mt76 uses iowrite32_copy to copy beacon frames to beacon
+template memory on the chip.
+Misaligned 32-bit accesses cause CPU exceptions on MIPS and should be
+avoided.
+
+Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
+---
+
+--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
++++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
+@@ -4149,7 +4149,7 @@ void ieee80211_sta_uapsd_trigger(struct
+ * The TX headroom reserved by mac80211 for its own tx_status functions.
+ * This is enough for the radiotap header.
+ */
+-#define IEEE80211_TX_STATUS_HEADROOM 14
++#define IEEE80211_TX_STATUS_HEADROOM ALIGN(14, 4)
+
+ /**
+ * ieee80211_sta_set_buffered - inform mac80211 about driver-buffered frames