Re: [PATCH net-next v4 5/5] net: hdlc_fr: Add support for any Ethertype
From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
Date: 2020-10-30 21:26:36
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From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
Date: 2020-10-30 21:26:36
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On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 3:29 PM Xie He [off-list ref] wrote:
On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 9:33 AM Willem de Bruijn [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
Should this still check data[5] == FR_PAD?No, the 6th byte (data[5]) is not a padding field. It is the first byte of the SNAP header. The original code is misleading. That is part of the reasons why I want to fix it with this patch.
Oh, good point. In that case Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
The frame format is specified in RFC 2427 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2427). We can see in Section 4.1 and 4.2 that the 6th byte is the first byte of the SNAP header.