Merge tag 'v4.4.16' into android-4.4.y

This is the 4.4.16 stable release

Change-Id: Ibaf7b7e03695e1acebc654a2ca1a4bfcc48fcea4

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 3143c847bddb..04c068e55353 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -265,6 +265,7 @@ struct header_ops {
 	void	(*cache_update)(struct hh_cache *hh,
 				const struct net_device *dev,
 				const unsigned char *haddr);
+	bool	(*validate)(const char *ll_header, unsigned int len);
 };
 
 /* These flag bits are private to the generic network queueing
@@ -1398,8 +1399,7 @@ enum netdev_priv_flags {
  *	@dma:		DMA channel
  *	@mtu:		Interface MTU value
  *	@type:		Interface hardware type
- *	@hard_header_len: Hardware header length, which means that this is the
- *			  minimum size of a packet.
+ *	@hard_header_len: Maximum hardware header length.
  *
  *	@needed_headroom: Extra headroom the hardware may need, but not in all
  *			  cases can this be guaranteed
@@ -2493,6 +2493,24 @@ static inline int dev_parse_header(const struct sk_buff *skb,
 	return dev->header_ops->parse(skb, haddr);
 }
 
+/* ll_header must have at least hard_header_len allocated */
+static inline bool dev_validate_header(const struct net_device *dev,
+				       char *ll_header, int len)
+{
+	if (likely(len >= dev->hard_header_len))
+		return true;
+
+	if (capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO)) {
+		memset(ll_header + len, 0, dev->hard_header_len - len);
+		return true;
+	}
+
+	if (dev->header_ops && dev->header_ops->validate)
+		return dev->header_ops->validate(ll_header, len);
+
+	return false;
+}
+
 typedef int gifconf_func_t(struct net_device * dev, char __user * bufptr, int len);
 int register_gifconf(unsigned int family, gifconf_func_t *gifconf);
 static inline int unregister_gifconf(unsigned int family)