From 8b8e658b16336f0f50aba733f51db636ef121f50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Kurz Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 14:50:36 +0200 Subject: macvtap/tun: cross-endian support for little-endian hosts The VNET_LE flag was introduced to fix accesses to virtio 1.0 headers that are always little-endian. It can also be used to handle the special case of a legacy little-endian device implemented by a big-endian host. Let's add a flag and ioctls for big-endian devices as well. If both flags are set, little-endian wins. Since this is isn't a common usecase, the feature is controlled by a kernel config option (not set by default). Both macvtap and tun are covered by this patch since they share the same API with userland. Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Reviewed-by: David Gibson --- drivers/net/Kconfig | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) (limited to 'drivers/net/Kconfig') diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig index df51d60..71ac0ec 100644 --- a/drivers/net/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig @@ -244,6 +244,20 @@ config TUN If you don't know what to use this for, you don't need it. +config TUN_VNET_CROSS_LE + bool "Support for cross-endian vnet headers on little-endian kernels" + default n + ---help--- + This option allows TUN/TAP and MACVTAP device drivers in a + little-endian kernel to parse vnet headers that come from a + big-endian legacy virtio device. + + Userspace programs can control the feature using the TUNSETVNETBE + and TUNGETVNETBE ioctls. + + Unless you have a little-endian system hosting a big-endian virtual + machine with a legacy virtio NIC, you should say N. + config VETH tristate "Virtual ethernet pair device" ---help--- -- cgit v1.1