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| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/netdevice.h | 22 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h index efe7cec111fa..fd30cb545c45 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h @@ -268,6 +268,7 @@ struct header_ops { void (*cache_update)(struct hh_cache *hh, const struct net_device *dev, const unsigned char *haddr); + bool (*validate)(const char *ll_header, unsigned int len); }; /* These flag bits are private to the generic network queueing @@ -1459,8 +1460,7 @@ enum netdev_priv_flags { * @dma: DMA channel * @mtu: Interface MTU value * @type: Interface hardware type - * @hard_header_len: Hardware header length, which means that this is the - * minimum size of a packet. + * @hard_header_len: Maximum hardware header length. * * @needed_headroom: Extra headroom the hardware may need, but not in all * cases can this be guaranteed @@ -2687,6 +2687,24 @@ static inline int dev_parse_header(const struct sk_buff *skb, return dev->header_ops->parse(skb, haddr); } +/* ll_header must have at least hard_header_len allocated */ +static inline bool dev_validate_header(const struct net_device *dev, + char *ll_header, int len) +{ + if (likely(len >= dev->hard_header_len)) + return true; + + if (capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO)) { + memset(ll_header + len, 0, dev->hard_header_len - len); + return true; + } + + if (dev->header_ops && dev->header_ops->validate) + return dev->header_ops->validate(ll_header, len); + + return false; +} + typedef int gifconf_func_t(struct net_device * dev, char __user * bufptr, int len); int register_gifconf(unsigned int family, gifconf_func_t *gifconf); static inline int unregister_gifconf(unsigned int family) |