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authorMichel Machado <michel@digirati.com.br>2012-06-12 10:16:35 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-06-12 18:51:09 -0700
commit95603e2293de556de7e82221649bfd7fd98b64a3 (patch)
treed90e7570b072f62ee4fefa619b93ec771bfd9f95 /include
parentde063b7040dcd9fbc9a1847fa44f0af13e19d6de (diff)
downloadlinux-95603e2293de556de7e82221649bfd7fd98b64a3.tar.gz
net-next: add dev_loopback_xmit() to avoid duplicate code
Add dev_loopback_xmit() in order to deduplicate functions
ip_dev_loopback_xmit() (in net/ipv4/ip_output.c) and
ip6_dev_loopback_xmit() (in net/ipv6/ip6_output.c).

I was about to reinvent the wheel when I noticed that
ip_dev_loopback_xmit() and ip6_dev_loopback_xmit() do exactly what I
need and are not IP-only functions, but they were not available to reuse
elsewhere.

ip6_dev_loopback_xmit() does not have line "skb_dst_force(skb);", but I
understand that this is harmless, and should be in dev_loopback_xmit().

Signed-off-by: Michel Machado <michel@digirati.com.br>
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
CC: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
CC: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
CC: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
CC: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
CC: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
CC: "Michał Mirosław" <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
CC: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netdevice.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index a0b84e3b087c..2c2ecea28a1b 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -1627,6 +1627,7 @@ extern int		dev_alloc_name(struct net_device *dev, const char *name);
 extern int		dev_open(struct net_device *dev);
 extern int		dev_close(struct net_device *dev);
 extern void		dev_disable_lro(struct net_device *dev);
+extern int		dev_loopback_xmit(struct sk_buff *newskb);
 extern int		dev_queue_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb);
 extern int		register_netdevice(struct net_device *dev);
 extern void		unregister_netdevice_queue(struct net_device *dev,