vlan: Add function to retrieve EtherType from vlan packets.
authorHao Zheng <hzheng@nicira.com>
Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:47:57 +0000 (13:47 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 12 Nov 2010 20:30:57 +0000 (12:30 -0800)
Depending on how a packet is vlan tagged (i.e. hardware accelerated or
not), the encapsulated protocol is stored in different locations.  This
provides a consistent method of accessing that protocol, which is needed
by drivers, security checks, etc.

Signed-off-by: Hao Zheng <hzheng@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
include/linux/if_vlan.h

index c2f3a72712cec86a63699690096b928f1a1db6a2..635e1faec412db465a429a626da4c373510f2d98 100644 (file)
@@ -339,6 +339,31 @@ static inline int vlan_get_tag(const struct sk_buff *skb, u16 *vlan_tci)
        }
 }
 
+/**
+ * vlan_get_protocol - get protocol EtherType.
+ * @skb: skbuff to query
+ *
+ * Returns the EtherType of the packet, regardless of whether it is
+ * vlan encapsulated (normal or hardware accelerated) or not.
+ */
+static inline __be16 vlan_get_protocol(const struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+       __be16 protocol = 0;
+
+       if (vlan_tx_tag_present(skb) ||
+            skb->protocol != cpu_to_be16(ETH_P_8021Q))
+               protocol = skb->protocol;
+       else {
+               __be16 proto, *protop;
+               protop = skb_header_pointer(skb, offsetof(struct vlan_ethhdr,
+                                               h_vlan_encapsulated_proto),
+                                               sizeof(proto), &proto);
+               if (likely(protop))
+                       protocol = *protop;
+       }
+
+       return protocol;
+}
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
 
 /* VLAN IOCTLs are found in sockios.h */