linux/net
Xie He 21c85974aa net/packet: Improve the comment about LL header visibility criteria
The "dev_has_header" function, recently added in
commit d549699048 ("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@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210205224124.21345-1-xie.he.0141@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2021-02-06 14:59:28 -08:00
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6lowpan
9p net: remove redundant 'depends on NET' 2021-01-27 17:04:12 -08:00
802
8021q Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2021-01-14 18:34:50 -08:00
appletalk net: appletalk: fix kerneldoc warnings 2020-10-30 11:48:17 -07:00
atm net: atm: pppoatm: use new API for wakeup tasklet 2021-01-29 18:24:05 -08:00
ax25
batman-adv net: remove redundant 'depends on NET' 2021-01-27 17:04:12 -08:00
bluetooth net: remove redundant 'depends on NET' 2021-01-27 17:04:12 -08:00
bpf Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2021-01-20 12:16:11 -08:00
bpfilter net: remove redundant 'depends on NET' 2021-01-27 17:04:12 -08:00
bridge net: bridge: mcast: Use ERR_CAST instead of ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR()) 2021-02-06 10:51:01 -08:00
caif
can linux-can-next-for-5.12-20210127 2021-01-27 18:53:10 -08:00
ceph libceph: fix "Boolean result is used in bitwise operation" warning 2021-01-21 16:49:59 +01:00
core Revert "net: Have netpoll bring-up DSA management interface" 2021-02-06 14:42:57 -08:00
dcb net: dcb: use obj-$(CONFIG_DCB) form in net/Makefile 2021-01-27 17:03:52 -08:00
dccp dccp: Return the correct errno code 2021-02-06 11:15:28 -08:00
decnet net: decnet: fix netdev refcount leaking on error path 2021-01-27 17:33:46 -08:00
dns_resolver net: remove redundant 'depends on NET' 2021-01-27 17:04:12 -08:00
dsa net: dsa: make assisted_learning_on_cpu_port bypass offloaded LAG interfaces 2021-02-06 14:51:51 -08:00
ethernet net: datagram: fix some kernel-doc markups 2020-11-17 14:15:03 -08:00
ethtool ethtool: Expose the number of lanes in use 2021-02-03 18:37:29 -08:00
hsr net: hsr: align sup_multicast_addr in struct hsr_priv to u16 boundary 2021-02-02 08:57:18 -08:00
ieee802154 treewide: rename nla_strlcpy to nla_strscpy. 2020-11-16 08:08:54 -08:00
ife net: remove redundant 'depends on NET' 2021-01-27 17:04:12 -08:00
ipv4 Revert "net: ipv4: handle DSA enabled master network devices" 2021-02-06 14:42:57 -08:00
ipv6 net/core: move gro function declarations to separate header 2021-02-04 18:37:57 -08:00
iucv net/af_iucv: build SG skbs for TRANS_HIPER sockets 2021-01-28 20:36:22 -08:00
kcm net: group skb_shinfo zerocopy related bits together. 2021-01-07 16:08:37 -08:00
key af_key: relax availability checks for skb size calculation 2021-01-04 10:05:50 +01:00
l2tp lsm,selinux: pass flowi_common instead of flowi to the LSM hooks 2020-11-23 18:36:21 -05:00
l3mdev net: l3mdev: use obj-$(CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV) form in net/Makefile 2021-01-27 17:03:52 -08:00
lapb net: lapb: Copy the skb before sending a packet 2021-02-02 08:40:48 -08:00
llc net: remove redundant 'depends on NET' 2021-01-27 17:04:12 -08:00
mac80211 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2021-02-02 14:21:31 -08:00
mac802154 net: mac802154: convert tasklets to use new tasklet_setup() API 2020-11-07 10:40:56 -08:00
mpls mpls: drop skb's dst in mpls_forward() 2020-11-03 12:55:53 -08:00
mptcp mptcp: pm: add lockdep assertions 2021-02-06 14:35:47 -08:00
ncsi net/ncsi: Use real net-device for response handler 2020-12-23 12:22:23 -08:00
netfilter netfilter: move handlers to net/ip_vs.h 2021-02-04 18:37:57 -08:00
netlabel Merge https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-11-19 19:08:46 -08:00
netlink netlink: add tracepoint at NL_SET_ERR_MSG 2021-02-04 18:05:59 -08:00
netrom
nfc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2021-01-28 17:09:31 -08:00
nsh
openvswitch net: openvswitch: add log message for error case 2021-01-14 16:32:14 -08:00
packet net/packet: Improve the comment about LL header visibility criteria 2021-02-06 14:59:28 -08:00
phonet
psample net: remove redundant 'depends on NET' 2021-01-27 17:04:12 -08:00
qrtr net: qrtr: fix null-ptr-deref in qrtr_ns_remove 2021-01-05 16:50:09 -08:00
rds net/rds: restrict iovecs length for RDS_CMSG_RDMA_ARGS 2021-02-02 08:44:08 -08:00
rfkill rfkill: add a reason to the HW rfkill state 2020-12-11 12:47:17 +01:00
rose rose: Fix Null pointer dereference in rose_send_frame() 2020-11-20 10:04:58 -08:00
rxrpc rxrpc: call udp_tunnel_encap_enable in rxrpc_open_socket 2021-02-04 18:37:15 -08:00
sched net: sched: Return the correct errno code 2021-02-06 11:15:28 -08:00
sctp sctp: remove the NETIF_F_SG flag before calling skb_segment 2021-01-16 19:05:59 -08:00
smc net/smc: use memcpy instead of snprintf to avoid out of bounds read 2021-01-12 20:22:01 -08:00
strparser
sunrpc SUNRPC: Handle 0 length opaque XDR object data properly 2021-01-25 15:59:12 -05:00
switchdev Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2021-01-28 17:09:31 -08:00
tipc tipc: remove duplicated code in tipc_msg_create 2021-01-27 18:50:07 -08:00
tls net/tls: Except bond interface from some TLS checks 2021-01-18 20:48:40 -08:00
unix networking changes for the 5.10 merge window 2020-10-15 18:42:13 -07:00
vmw_vsock vsock: fix the race conditions in multi-transport support 2021-02-01 19:54:30 -08:00
wireless This time, only RTNL locking reduction fallout. 2021-02-02 18:40:42 -08:00
x25 net: x25: Remove unimplemented X.25-over-LLC code stubs 2020-12-12 17:15:33 -08:00
xdp xsk: Clear pool even for inactive queues 2021-01-19 22:47:04 +01:00
xfrm Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/klassert/ipsec 2021-01-21 11:05:10 -08:00
compat.c iov_iter: transparently handle compat iovecs in import_iovec 2020-10-03 00:02:13 -04:00
devres.c
Kconfig wimax: move out to staging 2020-10-29 19:27:45 +01:00
Makefile net: l3mdev: use obj-$(CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV) form in net/Makefile 2021-01-27 17:03:52 -08:00
socket.c for-5.11/io_uring-2020-12-14 2020-12-16 12:44:05 -08:00
sysctl_net.c