netdev: expose ethernet address primitives
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1 /*
2 * INET An implementation of the TCP/IP protocol suite for the LINUX
3 * operating system. NET is implemented using the BSD Socket
4 * interface as the means of communication with the user level.
5 *
6 * Definitions for the Ethernet handlers.
7 *
8 * Version: @(#)eth.h 1.0.4 05/13/93
9 *
10 * Authors: Ross Biro
11 * Fred N. van Kempen, <waltje@uWalt.NL.Mugnet.ORG>
12 *
13 * Relocated to include/linux where it belongs by Alan Cox
14 * <gw4pts@gw4pts.ampr.org>
15 *
16 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
17 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
18 * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
19 * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
20 *
21 * WARNING: This move may well be temporary. This file will get merged with others RSN.
22 *
23 */
24 #ifndef _LINUX_ETHERDEVICE_H
25 #define _LINUX_ETHERDEVICE_H
26
27 #include <linux/if_ether.h>
28 #include <linux/netdevice.h>
29 #include <linux/random.h>
30
31 #ifdef __KERNEL__
32 extern __be16 eth_type_trans(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev);
33 extern const struct header_ops eth_header_ops;
34
35 extern int eth_header(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
36 unsigned short type,
37 const void *daddr, const void *saddr, unsigned len);
38 extern int eth_rebuild_header(struct sk_buff *skb);
39 extern int eth_header_parse(const struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned char *haddr);
40 extern int eth_header_cache(const struct neighbour *neigh, struct hh_cache *hh);
41 extern void eth_header_cache_update(struct hh_cache *hh,
42 const struct net_device *dev,
43 const unsigned char *haddr);
44 extern int eth_mac_addr(struct net_device *dev, void *p);
45 extern int eth_change_mtu(struct net_device *dev, int new_mtu);
46 extern int eth_validate_addr(struct net_device *dev);
47
48
49
50 extern struct net_device *alloc_etherdev_mq(int sizeof_priv, unsigned int queue_count);
51 #define alloc_etherdev(sizeof_priv) alloc_etherdev_mq(sizeof_priv, 1)
52
53 /**
54 * is_zero_ether_addr - Determine if give Ethernet address is all zeros.
55 * @addr: Pointer to a six-byte array containing the Ethernet address
56 *
57 * Return true if the address is all zeroes.
58 */
59 static inline int is_zero_ether_addr(const u8 *addr)
60 {
61 return !(addr[0] | addr[1] | addr[2] | addr[3] | addr[4] | addr[5]);
62 }
63
64 /**
65 * is_multicast_ether_addr - Determine if the Ethernet address is a multicast.
66 * @addr: Pointer to a six-byte array containing the Ethernet address
67 *
68 * Return true if the address is a multicast address.
69 * By definition the broadcast address is also a multicast address.
70 */
71 static inline int is_multicast_ether_addr(const u8 *addr)
72 {
73 return (0x01 & addr[0]);
74 }
75
76 /**
77 * is_local_ether_addr - Determine if the Ethernet address is locally-assigned one (IEEE 802).
78 * @addr: Pointer to a six-byte array containing the Ethernet address
79 *
80 * Return true if the address is a local address.
81 */
82 static inline int is_local_ether_addr(const u8 *addr)
83 {
84 return (0x02 & addr[0]);
85 }
86
87 /**
88 * is_broadcast_ether_addr - Determine if the Ethernet address is broadcast
89 * @addr: Pointer to a six-byte array containing the Ethernet address
90 *
91 * Return true if the address is the broadcast address.
92 */
93 static inline int is_broadcast_ether_addr(const u8 *addr)
94 {
95 return (addr[0] & addr[1] & addr[2] & addr[3] & addr[4] & addr[5]) == 0xff;
96 }
97
98 /**
99 * is_valid_ether_addr - Determine if the given Ethernet address is valid
100 * @addr: Pointer to a six-byte array containing the Ethernet address
101 *
102 * Check that the Ethernet address (MAC) is not 00:00:00:00:00:00, is not
103 * a multicast address, and is not FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF.
104 *
105 * Return true if the address is valid.
106 */
107 static inline int is_valid_ether_addr(const u8 *addr)
108 {
109 /* FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF is a multicast address so we don't need to
110 * explicitly check for it here. */
111 return !is_multicast_ether_addr(addr) && !is_zero_ether_addr(addr);
112 }
113
114 /**
115 * random_ether_addr - Generate software assigned random Ethernet address
116 * @addr: Pointer to a six-byte array containing the Ethernet address
117 *
118 * Generate a random Ethernet address (MAC) that is not multicast
119 * and has the local assigned bit set.
120 */
121 static inline void random_ether_addr(u8 *addr)
122 {
123 get_random_bytes (addr, ETH_ALEN);
124 addr [0] &= 0xfe; /* clear multicast bit */
125 addr [0] |= 0x02; /* set local assignment bit (IEEE802) */
126 }
127
128 /**
129 * compare_ether_addr - Compare two Ethernet addresses
130 * @addr1: Pointer to a six-byte array containing the Ethernet address
131 * @addr2: Pointer other six-byte array containing the Ethernet address
132 *
133 * Compare two ethernet addresses, returns 0 if equal
134 */
135 static inline unsigned compare_ether_addr(const u8 *addr1, const u8 *addr2)
136 {
137 const u16 *a = (const u16 *) addr1;
138 const u16 *b = (const u16 *) addr2;
139
140 BUILD_BUG_ON(ETH_ALEN != 6);
141 return ((a[0] ^ b[0]) | (a[1] ^ b[1]) | (a[2] ^ b[2])) != 0;
142 }
143 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
144
145 #endif /* _LINUX_ETHERDEVICE_H */
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