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* [PATCH] Use BUILD_BUG_ON for tcp_skb_cb size checking
@ 2007-12-07 17:42 Pavel Emelyanov
  2007-12-11 10:12 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Pavel Emelyanov @ 2007-12-07 17:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David Miller; +Cc: Linux Netdev List, devel

The sizeof(struct tcp_skb_cb) should not be less than the
sizeof(skb->cb). This is checked in net/ipv4/tcp.c, but
this check can be made more gracefully.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>

---

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
index 8e65182..c8bebd3 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
@@ -2411,7 +2411,6 @@ void tcp_done(struct sock *sk)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tcp_done);
 
-extern void __skb_cb_too_small_for_tcp(int, int);
 extern struct tcp_congestion_ops tcp_reno;
 
 static __initdata unsigned long thash_entries;
@@ -2430,9 +2429,7 @@ void __init tcp_init(void)
 	unsigned long limit;
 	int order, i, max_share;
 
-	if (sizeof(struct tcp_skb_cb) > sizeof(skb->cb))
-		__skb_cb_too_small_for_tcp(sizeof(struct tcp_skb_cb),
-					   sizeof(skb->cb));
+	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct tcp_skb_cb) > sizeof(skb->cb));
 
 	tcp_hashinfo.bind_bucket_cachep =
 		kmem_cache_create("tcp_bind_bucket",

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* Re: [PATCH] Use BUILD_BUG_ON for tcp_skb_cb size checking
  2007-12-07 17:42 [PATCH] Use BUILD_BUG_ON for tcp_skb_cb size checking Pavel Emelyanov
@ 2007-12-11 10:12 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: David Miller @ 2007-12-11 10:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: xemul; +Cc: netdev, devel

From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:42:04 +0300

> The sizeof(struct tcp_skb_cb) should not be less than the
> sizeof(skb->cb). This is checked in net/ipv4/tcp.c, but
> this check can be made more gracefully.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>

Applied to net-2.6.25, thanks.

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