Re: [PATCH net-next] drivers/net/wan/hdlc_fr: Move the skb_headroom check out of fr_hard_header

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Sat Oct 10 2020 - 19:15:19 EST


On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 11:32:03 -0700 Xie He wrote:
> Move the skb_headroom check out of fr_hard_header and into pvc_xmit.
> This has two benefits:
>
> 1. Originally we only do this check for skbs sent by users on Ethernet-
> emulating PVC devices. After the change we do this check for skbs sent on
> normal PVC devices, too.
> (Also add a comment to make it clear that this is only a protection
> against upper layers that don't take dev->needed_headroom into account.
> Such upper layers should be rare and I believe they should be fixed.)
>
> 2. After the change we can simplify the parameter list of fr_hard_header.
> We no longer need to use a pointer to pointers (skb_p) because we no
> longer need to replace the skb inside fr_hard_header.
>
> Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Xie He <xie.he.0141@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks!