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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: stefani@seibold.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] UDPCP Communication Protocol
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:35:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1293791712.2973.38.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1293787785-3834-1-git-send-email-stefani@seibold.net>

Le vendredi 31 décembre 2010 à 10:29 +0100, stefani@seibold.net a
écrit :
> 		/*
> +			 * set a flag for UDPCP message
> +			 */
> +			skb->cb[sizeof(struct udp_skb_cb)] = 1;


Dont do that. This hides an important thing : you use one extra byte in
skb->cb[] without being explicit.

As we have one byte hole in struct udp_skb_cbn, you could use it
instead.

diff --git a/include/net/udp.h b/include/net/udp.h
index bb967dd..ceafbbf 100644
--- a/include/net/udp.h
+++ b/include/net/udp.h
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ struct udp_skb_cb {
 	} header;
 	__u16		cscov;
 	__u8		partial_cov;
+	__u8		udpcp_flag;
 };
 #define UDP_SKB_CB(__skb)	((struct udp_skb_cb *)((__skb)->cb))
 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-31 10:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-31  9:29 [PATCH] UDPCP Communication Protocol stefani
2010-12-31 10:00 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-12-31 10:22   ` Stefani Seibold
2010-12-31 10:41     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-12-31 11:23       ` Stefani Seibold
2010-12-31 11:54         ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-01 21:40           ` Stefani Seibold
2011-01-10 22:28             ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2010-12-31 10:15 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-12-31 10:29   ` Stefani Seibold
2010-12-31 10:35 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2010-12-31 11:25 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-12-31 12:00   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-01 21:28     ` Stefani Seibold
2010-12-31 17:46 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-12-31 17:46 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-06 20:11 ` Pavel Machek
2011-01-06 20:17   ` David Miller
2011-01-10 22:53 ` Jesper Juhl
2011-01-11  0:49 ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer

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