ixgbevf_cleanup_headers(9)

💖 ixgbevf_cleanup_headers ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so this is the Kernel API Manual glow-up for ixgbevf_cleanup_headers(9) — the function whose whole job is correcting corrupted or empty headers. bestie, it’s giving packet-header rescue mission 💅.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bool ixgbevf_cleanup_headers (struct ixgbevf_ring *rx_ring , union
       ixgbe_adv_rx_desc *rx_desc , struct sk_buff *skb );

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• rx_ring — the rx descriptor ring that the packet is being transacted on, aka where the drama is happening 💫
• rx_desc — pointer to the EOP Rx descriptor 👑
• skb — pointer to the current skb being fixed, bestie 🛠️

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🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

so this function does a vibe check for corrupted packet headers caused by senders on the local L2 embedded NIC switch not setting up their Tx Descriptors right. ngl, these should be very rare 🙈.

it also handles the case where data is being pulled in on pages only, and because of that, no data is present in the skb header 🫶.

in addition, if skb is not at least 60 bytes, it needs to be padded so it’s large enough to qualify as a valid Ethernet frame. periodt, Ethernet said “minimum length or it’s not valid” 💀✨.

💖 real talk: it returns true if an error was encountered and skb was freed. that’s the whole mood.

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the whole squad file is right here: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c 🧚

• ixgbevf_set_ivar(9), ixgbevf_tx_timeout(9), ixgbevf_clean_tx_irq(9)
• ixgbevf_rx_skb(9), ixgbevf_rx_checksum(9), ixgbevf_process_skb_fields(9)
• ixgbevf_is_non_eop(9), ixgbevf_alloc_rx_buffers(9), ixgbevf_reuse_rx_page(9)
• ixgbevf_add_rx_frag(9), ixgbevf_poll(9), ixgbevf_write_eitr(9)
• ixgbevf_configure_msix(9), ixgbevf_update_itr(9), ixgbevf_msix_clean_rings(9)
• ixgbevf_request_msix_irqs(9), ixgbevf_request_irq(9), ixgbevf_irq_disable(9)
• ixgbevf_irq_enable(9), ixgbevf_configure_tx_ring(9), ixgbevf_configure_tx(9)
• ixgbevf_init_rss_key(9), ixgbevf_configure_rx(9), ixgbevf_set_rx_mode(9)
• ixgbevf_set_features(9), ixgbevf_clean_rx_ring(9), ixgbevf_clean_tx_ring(9)
• ixgbevf_clean_all_rx_rings(9), ixgbevf_clean_all_tx_rings(9), ixgbevf_set_num_queues(9)
• ixgbevf_set_interrupt_capability(9), ixgbevf_alloc_q_vector(9), ixgbevf_free_q_vector(9)
• ixgbevf_alloc_q_vectors(9), ixgbevf_free_q_vectors(9), ixgbevf_reset_interrupt_capability(9)
• ixgbevf_init_interrupt_scheme(9), ixgbevf_clear_interrupt_scheme(9), ixgbevf_sw_init(9)
• ixgbevf_update_stats(9), ixgbevf_service_timer(9), ixgbevf_check_hang_subtask(9)
• ixgbevf_watchdog_update_link(9), ixgbevf_watchdog_link_is_up(9), ixgbevf_watchdog_link_is_down(9)
• ixgbevf_watchdog_subtask(9), ixgbevf_service_task(9), ixgbevf_free_tx_resources(9)
• ixgbevf_free_all_tx_resources(9), ixgbevf_setup_tx_resources(9), ixgbevf_setup_all_tx_resources(9)
• ixgbevf_setup_rx_resources(9), ixgbevf_setup_all_rx_resources(9), ixgbevf_free_rx_resources(9)
• ixgbevf_free_all_rx_resources(9), ixgbevf_open(9), ixgbevf_close_suspend(9)
• ixgbevf_close(9), ixgbevf_set_mac(9), ixgbevf_change_mtu(9)
• ixgbevf_probe(9), ixgbevf_remove(9), ixgbevf_io_error_detected(9)
• ixgbevf_io_slot_reset(9), ixgbevf_io_resume(9), ixgbevf_init_module(9)
• ixgbevf_exit_module(9), ixgbevf_get_hw_dev_name(9)

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mwah 💋 — this page is brought to you by the source/version line ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i..., dated October 2026, and yes, it’s still the ixgbevf_cleanup_headers(9) page. bye bestie 🫶✨