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[3/6] usbnet: allow mini-drivers to consume L2 headers

Message ID 1449167063-22703-4-git-send-email-bjorn@mork.no
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Commit Message

Bjørn Mork Dec. 3, 2015, 6:24 p.m. UTC
Assume the minidriver has taken care of all L2 header parsing
if it sets skb->protocol.  This allows the minidriver to
support non-ethernet L2 headers, and even operate without
any L2 header at all.

Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
---
 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Oliver Neukum Dec. 3, 2015, 8:03 p.m. UTC | #1
On Thu, 2015-12-03 at 19:24 +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> Assume the minidriver has taken care of all L2 header parsing
> if it sets skb->protocol.  This allows the minidriver to
> support non-ethernet L2 headers, and even operate without
> any L2 header at all.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Acked-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
> index 0744bf2ef2d6..0b0ba7ef14e4 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
> @@ -324,7 +324,10 @@ void usbnet_skb_return (struct usbnet *dev, struct sk_buff *skb)
>  		return;
>  	}
>  
> -	skb->protocol = eth_type_trans (skb, dev->net);
> +	/* only update if unset to allow minidriver rx_fixup override */
> +	if (skb->protocol == 0)
> +		skb->protocol = eth_type_trans (skb, dev->net);
> +
>  	dev->net->stats.rx_packets++;
>  	dev->net->stats.rx_bytes += skb->len;
>  


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diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
index 0744bf2ef2d6..0b0ba7ef14e4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
@@ -324,7 +324,10 @@  void usbnet_skb_return (struct usbnet *dev, struct sk_buff *skb)
 		return;
 	}
 
-	skb->protocol = eth_type_trans (skb, dev->net);
+	/* only update if unset to allow minidriver rx_fixup override */
+	if (skb->protocol == 0)
+		skb->protocol = eth_type_trans (skb, dev->net);
+
 	dev->net->stats.rx_packets++;
 	dev->net->stats.rx_bytes += skb->len;