From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.ker...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 15:44:14 -0500
> From: Willem de Bruijn <will...@google.com> > > Allow device-specific validation of link layer headers. Existing > checks drop all packets shorter than hard_header_len. For variable > length protocols, such packets can be valid. > > patch 1 adds header_ops.validate and dev_validate_header > patch 2 replaces ll_header_truncated with dev_validate_header > patch 3 implements the protocol specific callback for AX25 > > Tested with a temporary eth_header_validate function. The AX25 > code is compile-tested only at this point. I'm not going to be able to send another pull request to Linus before -final, so please respin this against net-next and I'll queue it up for -stable. You can add the missing Fixes: tags as well when you do this. Thanks.
