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Commit c1aad275 authored by Jason Wang's avatar Jason Wang Committed by David S. Miller
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packet: set transport header before doing xmit



Set the transport header for 1) some drivers (e.g ixgbe needs l4 header to do
atr) 2) precise packet length estimation (introduced in 1def9238) needs l4
header to compute header length.

So this patch first tries to get l4 header for packet socket through
skb_flow_dissect(), and pretend no l4 header if skb_flow_dissect() fails.

Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 38502af7
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