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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] xfrm: reduce struct sec_path size
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2026 01:11:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aYUxubug67eqQ6aH@strlen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a2552992ca2fa29754340eaa05b1a185fca7a381.1770309837.git.pabeni@redhat.com>

Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> wrote:
> The mentioned struct has an hole and uses unnecessary wide type to
> store a MAC length.

Good catch.

> struct sec_path {
> 	int                        len;
> 	int                        olen;
> 	struct xfrm_offload        ovec[1];
> 	int                        verified_cnt;

Why not s/int/u8/ while at it?

> 	struct xfrm_state *        xvec[6];

len is xvec, olen is the offload length which can only be 0 or 1 at this time.

verified_cnt also refers to xvec[].

>  	/* Used to keep whole l2 header for transport mode GRO */
> -	__u32			orig_mac_len;
> +	__u16			orig_mac_len;

Matches mac_len in sk_buff; I think this change is fine.

  reply	other threads:[~2026-02-06  0:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-02-05 16:44 [RFC PATCH] xfrm: reduce struct sec_path size Paolo Abeni
2026-02-06  0:11 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2026-02-06  9:37   ` Paolo Abeni
2026-02-06  9:48     ` Steffen Klassert
2026-02-06 14:36       ` Paolo Abeni
2026-02-06 14:42         ` Steffen Klassert

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