From: Xie He <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 09:49:18 -0700
> This driver is a virtual driver stacked on top of Ethernet interfaces. > > When this driver transmits data on the Ethernet device, the skb->protocol > setting is inconsistent with the Ethernet header prepended to the skb. > > This causes a user listening on the Ethernet interface with an AF_PACKET > socket, to see different sll_protocol values for incoming and outgoing > frames, because incoming frames would have this value set by parsing the > Ethernet header. > > This patch changes the skb->protocol value for outgoing Ethernet frames, > making it consistent with the Ethernet header prepended. This makes a > user listening on the Ethernet device with an AF_PACKET socket, to see > the same sll_protocol value for incoming and outgoing frames. > > Cc: Martin Schiller <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Xie He <[email protected]> Applied, thank you.
