From: Xie He <xie.he.0141@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 2b7bcd967a0f5b7ac9bb0c37b92de36e073dd119 ] Change the default value of hard_header_len in hdlc.c from 16 to 0. Currently there are 6 HDLC protocol drivers, among them: hdlc_raw_eth, hdlc_cisco, hdlc_ppp, hdlc_x25 set hard_header_len when attaching the protocol, overriding the default. So this patch does not affect them. hdlc_raw and hdlc_fr don't set hard_header_len when attaching the protocol. So this patch will change the hard_header_len of the HDLC device for them from 16 to 0. This is the correct change because both hdlc_raw and hdlc_fr don't have header_ops, and the code in net/packet/af_packet.c expects the value of hard_header_len to be consistent with header_ops. In net/packet/af_packet.c, in the packet_snd function, for AF_PACKET/DGRAM sockets it would reserve a headroom of hard_header_len and call dev_hard_header to fill in that headroom, and for AF_PACKET/RAW sockets, it does not reserve the headroom and does not call dev_hard_header, but checks if the user has provided a header of length hard_header_len (in function dev_validate_header). Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Martin Schiller <ms@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Xie He <xie.he.0141@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/wan/hdlc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wan/hdlc.c b/drivers/net/wan/hdlc.c index 386ed2aa31fd9..9b00708676cf7 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wan/hdlc.c +++ b/drivers/net/wan/hdlc.c @@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ static void hdlc_setup_dev(struct net_device *dev) dev->min_mtu = 68; dev->max_mtu = HDLC_MAX_MTU; dev->type = ARPHRD_RAWHDLC; - dev->hard_header_len = 16; + dev->hard_header_len = 0; dev->needed_headroom = 0; dev->addr_len = 0; dev->header_ops = &hdlc_null_ops; -- 2.25.1