From: Xie He xie.he.0141@gmail.com
[ Upstream commit 91244d108441013b7367b3b4dcc6869998676473 ]
Set the skb's network_header before it is passed to the underlying Ethernet device for transmission.
This patch fixes the following issue:
When we use this driver with AF_PACKET sockets, there would be error messages of: protocol 0805 is buggy, dev (Ethernet interface name) printed in the system "dmesg" log.
This is because skbs passed down to the Ethernet device for transmission don't have their network_header properly set, and the dev_queue_xmit_nit function in net/core/dev.c complains about this.
Reason of setting the network_header to this place (at the end of the Ethernet header, and at the beginning of the Ethernet payload):
Because when this driver receives an skb from the Ethernet device, the network_header is also set at this place.
Cc: Martin Schiller ms@dev.tdt.de Signed-off-by: Xie He xie.he.0141@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- drivers/net/wan/lapbether.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wan/lapbether.c b/drivers/net/wan/lapbether.c index 5befc7f3f0e7a..c6db9a4e7c457 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wan/lapbether.c +++ b/drivers/net/wan/lapbether.c @@ -213,6 +213,8 @@ static void lapbeth_data_transmit(struct net_device *ndev, struct sk_buff *skb)
skb->dev = dev = lapbeth->ethdev;
+ skb_reset_network_header(skb); + dev_hard_header(skb, dev, ETH_P_DEC, bcast_addr, NULL, 0);
dev_queue_xmit(skb);