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| -rw-r--r-- | net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c | 23 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c index e7f61de2459a..0eebb960e11d 100644 --- a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c +++ b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c @@ -572,21 +572,28 @@ static int lowpan_header_create(struct sk_buff *skb, * this isn't implemented in mainline yet, so currently we assign 0xff */ { + mac_cb(skb)->flags = IEEE802154_FC_TYPE_DATA; + /* prepare wpan address data */ sa.addr_type = IEEE802154_ADDR_LONG; sa.pan_id = 0xff; - - da.addr_type = IEEE802154_ADDR_LONG; - da.pan_id = 0xff; - - memcpy(&(da.hwaddr), daddr, 8); memcpy(&(sa.hwaddr), saddr, 8); - mac_cb(skb)->flags = IEEE802154_FC_TYPE_DATA; + da.pan_id = 0xff; + /* + * if the destination address is the broadcast address, use the + * corresponding short address + */ + if (lowpan_is_addr_broadcast(daddr)) { + da.addr_type = IEEE802154_ADDR_SHORT; + da.short_addr = IEEE802154_ADDR_BROADCAST; + } else { + da.addr_type = IEEE802154_ADDR_LONG; + memcpy(&(da.hwaddr), daddr, 8); - /* request acknowledgment when possible */ - if (!lowpan_is_addr_broadcast(daddr)) + /* request acknowledgment */ mac_cb(skb)->flags |= MAC_CB_FLAG_ACKREQ; + } return dev_hard_header(skb, lowpan_dev_info(dev)->real_dev, type, (void *)&da, (void *)&sa, skb->len); |