Re: [3/5] netdev: HH_DATA_OFF bugfix

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Fri May 27 2005 - 22:18:12 EST


Jiri Benc wrote:
When the hardware header size is a multiple of HH_DATA_MOD, HH_DATA_OFF()
incorrectly returns HH_DATA_MOD (instead of 0).

Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@xxxxxxx>

--- linux/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ work/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -204,7 +209,7 @@
/* cached hardware header; allow for machine alignment needs. */
#define HH_DATA_MOD 16
#define HH_DATA_OFF(__len) \
- (HH_DATA_MOD - ((__len) & (HH_DATA_MOD - 1)))
+ (HH_DATA_MOD - (((__len - 1) & (HH_DATA_MOD - 1)) + 1))
#define HH_DATA_ALIGN(__len) \
(((__len)+(HH_DATA_MOD-1))&~(HH_DATA_MOD - 1))
unsigned long hh_data[HH_DATA_ALIGN(LL_MAX_HEADER) / sizeof(long)];


You'll want to run this one by DaveM. He would be the appropriate one to merge this, since it affects all ethernet devices (net/ethernet/eth.c uses HH_DATA_OFF macro).

I'm going over the rest of the ieee80211/ipw patches...

Jeff


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