Re: [GENERIC HDLC LAYER] Messages of a hdlc device

From: Krzysztof Halasa (khc@pm.waw.pl)
Date: Tue Jul 16 2002 - 09:06:24 EST


Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br> writes:

> This is becoming a FAQ... see net/core/dev.c, line 907 on 2.5:
>
> /* skb->nh should be correctly
> set by sender, so that the second statement is
> just protection against buggy protocols.
> */
> skb2->mac.raw = skb2->data;
>
> if (skb2->nh.raw < skb2->data || skb2->nh.raw > skb2->tail) {
> if (net_ratelimit())
> printk(KERN_DEBUG "protocol %04x is buggy, dev %s\n",
> skb2->protocol, dev->name);
> skb2->nh.raw = skb2->data;
> }

Sure I know thats it, but I remember checking the code which resulted
in nothing. Don't remember details, so I'll look at it again.

-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
Network Administrator
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