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    mac802154: Fix LQI recording · 5a5c4e06
    Miquel Raynal authored
    Back in 2014, the LQI was saved in the skb control buffer (skb->cb, or
    mac_cb(skb)) without any actual reset of this area prior to its use.
    
    As part of a useful rework of the use of this region, 32edc40a
    ("ieee802154: change _cb handling slightly") introduced mac_cb_init() to
    basically memset the cb field to 0. In particular, this new function got
    called at the beginning of mac802154_parse_frame_start(), right before
    the location where the buffer got actually filled.
    
    What went through unnoticed however, is the fact that the very first
    helper called by device drivers in the receive path already used this
    area to save the LQI value for later extraction. Resetting the cb field
    "so late" led to systematically zeroing the LQI.
    
    If we consider the reset of the cb field needed, we can make it as soon
    as we get an skb from a device driver, right before storing the LQI,
    as is the very first time we need to write something there.
    
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Fixes: 32edc40a ("ieee802154: change _cb handling slightly")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMiquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarAlexander Aring <aahringo@redhat.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221020142535.1038885-1-miquel.raynal@bootlin.comSigned-off-by: default avatarStefan Schmidt <stefan@datenfreihafen.org>
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