Re: [PATCH net-next v4 5/5] net: hdlc_fr: Add support for any Ethertype

From: Willem de Bruijn
Date: Fri Oct 30 2020 - 17:26:35 EST


On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 3:29 PM Xie He <xie.he.0141@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 9:33 AM Willem de Bruijn
> <willemdebruijn.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > 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@xxxxxxxxxx>

> 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.