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The fr_hard_header function is used to prepend the header to skbs before transmission. It is used in 3 situations: 1) When a control packet is generated internally in this driver; 2) When a user sends an skb on an Ethernet-emulating PVC device; 3) When a user sends an skb on a normal PVC device. These 3 situations need to be handled differently by fr_hard_header. Different headers should be prepended to the skb in different situations. Currently fr_hard_header distinguishes these 3 situations using skb->protocol. For situation 1 and 2, a special skb->protocol value will be assigned before calling fr_hard_header, so that it can recognize these 2 situations. All skb->protocol values other than these special ones are treated by fr_hard_header as situation 3. However, it is possible that in situation 3, the user sends an skb with one of the special skb->protocol values. In this case, fr_hard_header would incorrectly treat it as situation 1 or 2. This patch tries to solve this issue by using skb->dev instead of skb->protocol to distinguish between these 3 situations. For situation 1, skb->dev would be NULL; for situation 2, skb->dev->type would be ARPHRD_ETHER; and for situation 3, skb->dev->type would be ARPHRD_DLCI. This way fr_hard_header would be able to distinguish these 3 situations correctly regardless what skb->protocol value the user tries to use in situation 3. Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> Signed-off-by: Xie He <xie.he.0141@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.