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authorBen Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>2011-12-02 15:22:20 -0800
committerBen Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>2011-12-19 14:53:28 -0800
commit02e83e83b4c8d88f50317ba56fec53cd6d3fb909 (patch)
tree3add70419a691c6243a6b5cdb81caada3899456d /lib/netdev-provider.h
parenta57a8488da2e6e02f515230d42a958126971ba8e (diff)
netdev-linux: Report error for truncated packets on receive.
Found by inspection. Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
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diff --git a/lib/netdev-provider.h b/lib/netdev-provider.h
index 81e6c391..d5a30c80 100644
--- a/lib/netdev-provider.h
+++ b/lib/netdev-provider.h
@@ -172,6 +172,9 @@ struct netdev_class {
* packet, otherwise a negative errno value. Returns -EAGAIN immediately
* if no packet is ready to be received.
*
+ * Returns -EMSGSIZE, and discards the packet, if the received packet is
+ * longer than 'size' bytes.
+ *
* This function can only be expected to return a packet if ->listen() has
* been called successfully.
*