wifi: mac80211: align control-port TX skbs - #351
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Control-port frames are allocated differently from ordinary netdev TX packets. Use netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align() so they receive the usual network-packet alignment. This path can expose driver assumptions when converting Ethernet control-port frames for transmission. ath10k's native-WiFi TX path, for example, removes the QoS Control field with skb_pull(2). This fixes WPA2 EAPOL transmission on QCA9377 ath10k_sdio devices when wpa_supplicant sends EAPOL through NL80211_CMD_CONTROL_PORT_FRAME. Assisted-by: codex:gpt-5.6-terra Signed-off-by: Mark Featherston <mark@embeddedts.com>
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Align NL80211 control-port TX skbs with normal netdev TX allocation. This restores WPA2 EAPOL transmission for QCA9377 ath10k_sdio when modern wpa_supplicant uses NL80211_CMD_CONTROL_PORT_FRAME.