[PATCH net-next] net/packet: Improve the comment about LL header visibility criteria
From: Xie He
Date: Fri Feb 05 2021 - 22:27:31 EST
The "dev_has_header" function, recently added in
commit d549699048b4 ("net/packet: fix packet receive on L3 devices
without visible hard header"),
is more accurate as criteria for determining whether a device exposes
the LL header to upper layers, because in addition to dev->header_ops,
it also checks for dev->header_ops->create.
When transmitting an skb on a device, dev_hard_header can be called to
generate an LL header. dev_hard_header will only generate a header if
dev->header_ops->create is present.
Signed-off-by: Xie He <xie.he.0141@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/packet/af_packet.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c
index 6bbc7a448593..e24b2841c643 100644
--- a/net/packet/af_packet.c
+++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c
@@ -132,17 +132,17 @@ Resume
because it is invisible to us.
On transmit:
------------
-dev->header_ops != NULL
+dev_has_header(dev) == true
mac_header -> ll header
data -> ll header
-dev->header_ops == NULL (ll header is invisible to us)
+dev_has_header(dev) == false (ll header is invisible to us)
mac_header -> data
data -> data
We should set network_header on output to the correct position,
packet classifier depends on it.
*/
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2.27.0