Re: [PATCH net] net: sched: shrink struct qdisc_skb_cb to 28 bytes

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Thu, 2014-09-18 at 11:00 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-09-18 at 09:32 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > On Thu, 2014-09-18 at 09:26 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
[]
> > Or, do you have an idea ?
> 
> Seems straightforward ...
> 
> Or can you carry this fix for me ?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> [PATCH] ipoib: validate struct ipoib_cb size
> 
> To catch future errors sooner.
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib.h b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib.h
[]
> +static inline struct ipoib_cb *ipoib_skb_cb(const struct sk_buff *skb)
> +{
> +	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(skb->cb) < sizeof(struct ipoib_cb));
> +	return (struct ipoib_cb *)skb->cb;
> +}

It seems better not to use const for the struct sk_buff * here.

Neither of the uses take a const struct sk_buff *

> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c

> @@ -716,7 +716,7 @@ static int ipoib_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
>  {
>  	struct ipoib_dev_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
>  	struct ipoib_neigh *neigh;
> -	struct ipoib_cb *cb = (struct ipoib_cb *) skb->cb;
> +	struct ipoib_cb *cb = ipoib_skb_cb(skb);
>  	struct ipoib_header *header;
>  	unsigned long flags;
>  
> @@ -813,7 +813,7 @@ static int ipoib_hard_header(struct sk_buff *skb,
>  			     const void *daddr, const void *saddr, unsigned len)
>  {
>  	struct ipoib_header *header;
> -	struct ipoib_cb *cb = (struct ipoib_cb *) skb->cb;
> +	struct ipoib_cb *cb = ipoib_skb_cb(skb);
>  
>  	header = (struct ipoib_header *) skb_push(skb, sizeof *header);