netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] packet: Add GSO/checksum offload support to af

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Date:	Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:53:43 +1300
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] packet: Add GSO/checksum offload support
	to af_packet sockets

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:30:19PM -0800, Sridhar Samudrala wrote:
>
> +	if (po->vnet_hdr) {
> +		err = -EINVAL;
> +		if (dev->type != ARPHRD_ETHER)
> +			goto out_unlock;

We shouldn't have Ethernet-specific code in AF_PACKET.  What's
more, just because the device type is Ethernet it doesn't mean
that the packet is going to have an Ethernet header.

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