From patchwork Fri Nov 20 22:19:53 2009 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [1/3] Fix tap breakage on BSD hosts (no IFF_VNET_HDR) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:19:53 -0000 From: Juergen Lock X-Patchwork-Id: 38944 Message-Id: <20091120221953.GA16319@triton8.kn-bremen.de> To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org net/tap-bsd.c was assuming IFF_VNET_HDR was always available, which I think isn't true on any BSD. Signed-off-by: Juergen Lock Signed-off-by: Juergen Lock --- a/net/tap-bsd.c +++ b/net/tap-bsd.c @@ -87,6 +87,17 @@ int tap_open(char *ifname, int ifname_si dev = devname(s.st_rdev, S_IFCHR); pstrcpy(ifname, ifname_size, dev); + if (*vnet_hdr) { + /* BSD doesn't have IFF_VNET_HDR */ + *vnet_hdr = 0; + + if (vnet_hdr_required && !*vnet_hdr) { + qemu_error("vnet_hdr=1 requested, but no kernel " + "support for IFF_VNET_HDR available"); + close(fd); + return -1; + } + } fcntl(fd, F_SETFL, O_NONBLOCK); return fd; }