diff mbox

[3/6] 6lowpan: introduce lowpan_fetch_skb function

Message ID 1376430813-30982-5-git-send-email-alex.aring@gmail.com
State Changes Requested, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
Headers show

Commit Message

Alexander Aring Aug. 13, 2013, 9:53 p.m. UTC 
This patch adds a helper function to parse the ipv6 header to a
6lowpan header in stream.

This function checks first if we can pull data with a specific
length from a skb. If this seems to be okay, we copy skb data to
a destination pointer and run skb_pull.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
---
 net/ieee802154/6lowpan.h | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff mbox

Patch

diff --git a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.h b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.h
index 61f0ce9..e3348ec 100644
--- a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.h
+++ b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.h
@@ -233,4 +233,16 @@ 
 					dest = 16 bit inline */
 #define LOWPAN_NHC_UDP_CS_P_11	0xF3 /* source & dest = 0xF0B + 4bit inline */
 
+static inline bool lowpan_fetch_skb(struct sk_buff *skb,
+		void *data, const unsigned int len)
+{
+	if (unlikely(!pskb_may_pull(skb, len)))
+		return true;
+
+	skb_copy_from_linear_data(skb, data, len);
+	skb_pull(skb, len);
+
+	return false;
+}
+
 #endif /* __6LOWPAN_H__ */