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From: "Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@kernel.org>
To: Mat Martineau <martineau@kernel.org>,
	Geliang Tang <geliang@kernel.org>,
	 "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,  Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, mptcp@lists.linux.dev,
	 linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@kernel.org>,
	 Gang Yan <yangang@kylinos.cn>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 1/5] mptcp: reduce 'overhead' from u16 to u8
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:29:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260403-net-next-mptcp-msg_eor-misc-v1-1-b0b33bea3fed@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260403-net-next-mptcp-msg_eor-misc-v1-0-b0b33bea3fed@kernel.org>

From: Gang Yan <yangang@kylinos.cn>

The 'overhead' in struct mptcp_data_frag can safely use u8, as it
represents 'alignment + sizeof(mptcp_data_frag)'. With a maximum
alignment of 7('ALIGN(1, sizeof(long)) - 1'), the overhead is at most
47, well below U8_MAX and validated with BUILD_BUG_ON().

This patch also adds a field named 'unused' for further extensions.

Signed-off-by: Gang Yan <yangang@kylinos.cn>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
---
 net/mptcp/protocol.c | 6 ++++++
 net/mptcp/protocol.h | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/mptcp/protocol.c b/net/mptcp/protocol.c
index 239fb9e75c7c..79315e575d07 100644
--- a/net/mptcp/protocol.c
+++ b/net/mptcp/protocol.c
@@ -4616,6 +4616,12 @@ void __init mptcp_proto_init(void)
 	inet_register_protosw(&mptcp_protosw);
 
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct mptcp_skb_cb) > sizeof_field(struct sk_buff, cb));
+
+	/* struct mptcp_data_frag: 'overhead' corresponds to the alignment
+	 * (ALIGN(1, sizeof(long)) - 1, so 8-1) + the struct's size
+	 */
+	BUILD_BUG_ON(ALIGN(1, sizeof(long)) - 1 + sizeof(struct mptcp_data_frag)
+		     > U8_MAX);
 }
 
 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MPTCP_IPV6)
diff --git a/net/mptcp/protocol.h b/net/mptcp/protocol.h
index 0bd1ee860316..02031007100b 100644
--- a/net/mptcp/protocol.h
+++ b/net/mptcp/protocol.h
@@ -263,7 +263,8 @@ struct mptcp_data_frag {
 	u64 data_seq;
 	u16 data_len;
 	u16 offset;
-	u16 overhead;
+	u8 overhead;
+	u8 __unused;
 	u16 already_sent;
 	struct page *page;
 };

-- 
2.53.0


  reply	other threads:[~2026-04-03 11:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-03 11:29 [PATCH net-next 0/5] mptcp: support MSG_EOR and small cleanups Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)
2026-04-03 11:29 ` Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) [this message]
2026-04-03 11:29 ` [PATCH net-next 2/5] mptcp: preserve MSG_EOR semantics in sendmsg path Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)
2026-04-03 11:29 ` [PATCH net-next 3/5] tcp: add recv_should_stop helper Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)
2026-04-03 11:29 ` [PATCH net-next 4/5] mptcp: pm: in-kernel: remove mptcp_pm_has_addr_attr_id Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)
2026-04-03 14:19   ` Matthieu Baerts
2026-04-03 11:29 ` [PATCH net-next 5/5] selftests: mptcp: join: recreate signal endp with same ID Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)
2026-04-07  2:20 ` [PATCH net-next 0/5] mptcp: support MSG_EOR and small cleanups patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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