Add a helper to pad a short ethernet frame to the minimum required
length, which can be used by backend codes.
Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng...@gmail.com>
---
Changes in v3:
- use 'without' instead of 'sans'
- add a helper to pad short frames
include/net/eth.h | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/net/eth.h b/include/net/eth.h
index 0671be6916..bc064f8e52 100644
--- a/include/net/eth.h
+++ b/include/net/eth.h
@@ -31,6 +31,31 @@
#define ETH_ALEN 6
#define ETH_HLEN 14
+#define ETH_ZLEN 60 /* Min. octets in frame without FCS */
+
+/**
+ * pad_short_frame - pad a short frame to the minimum ethernet frame length
+ *
+ * If the ethernet frame size is shorter than 60 bytes, it will be padded to
+ * 60 bytes at the address @min_pkt.
+ *
+ * @min_pkt: buffer address to hold the padded frame
+ * @pkt: address to hold the original ethernet frame
+ * @size: size of the original ethernet frame
+ * @return true if the frame is padded, otherwise false
+ */
+static inline bool pad_short_frame(uint8_t *min_pkt, const uint8_t *pkt,
+ int size)
+{
+ if (size < ETH_ZLEN) {
+ /* pad to minimum ethernet frame length */
+ memcpy(min_pkt, pkt, size);
+ memset(&min_pkt[size], 0, ETH_ZLEN - size);
+ return true;
+ }
+
+ return false;
+}
struct eth_header {
uint8_t h_dest[ETH_ALEN]; /* destination eth addr */
--
2.17.1
