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-rw-r--r--include/net/mac80211.h10
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/status.c6
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index eddf49202c50..b9b9c9452131 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 df643cedf9b9..e1f69545974a 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);