ethernet: Add helper for assigning packet type when dest address does not match device address

commit 6e159fd653d7ebf6290358e0330a0cb8a75cf73b upstream.

Enable reuse of logic in eth_type_trans for determining packet type.

Suggested-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rahul Rameshbabu <rrameshbabu@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240423181319.115860-3-rrameshbabu@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Rahul Rameshbabu 2024-04-23 11:13:03 -07:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
commit 53c9574bb0
2 changed files with 26 additions and 11 deletions

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@ -164,17 +164,7 @@ __be16 eth_type_trans(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
eth = (struct ethhdr *)skb->data;
skb_pull_inline(skb, ETH_HLEN);
if (unlikely(!ether_addr_equal_64bits(eth->h_dest,
dev->dev_addr))) {
if (unlikely(is_multicast_ether_addr_64bits(eth->h_dest))) {
if (ether_addr_equal_64bits(eth->h_dest, dev->broadcast))
skb->pkt_type = PACKET_BROADCAST;
else
skb->pkt_type = PACKET_MULTICAST;
} else {
skb->pkt_type = PACKET_OTHERHOST;
}
}
eth_skb_pkt_type(skb, dev);
/*
* Some variants of DSA tagging don't have an ethertype field