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Date:	Mon, 27 Apr 2015 17:10:12 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	nfont@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, Brian King <brking@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 4/4] ibmveth: Add support for Large Receive
 Offload

On Mon, 2015-04-27 at 17:10 -0500, Thomas Falcon wrote:




> +				if (be16_to_cpu(skb->protocol) == ETH_P_IP) {
> +					skb_set_network_header(skb, 0);
> +					skb_set_transport_header(skb, sizeof(struct iphdr));
> +					iph = ip_hdr(skb);
> +

All this should really be :

if (skb->protocol == htons(ETH_P_IP)) {
	iph = (struct iphdr *)skb->data;

Because setting network header and a (potentially wrong) transport
header is confusing at this stage.

(It should be done later in core networking stack)


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