From f5f80e32de12fad2813d37270e8364a03e6d3ef0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 11:09:01 +0000 Subject: ipv6: remove hard coded limitation on ipv6_pinfo IPv6 inet sockets are supposed to have a "struct ipv6_pinfo" field at the end of their definition, so that inet6_sk_generic() can derive from socket size the offset of the "struct ipv6_pinfo". This is very fragile, and prevents adding bigger alignment in sockets, because inet6_sk_generic() does not work if the compiler adds padding after the ipv6_pinfo component. We are currently working on a patch series to reorganize TCP structures for better data locality and found issues similar to the one fixed in commit f5d547676ca0 ("tcp: fix tcp_inet6_sk() for 32bit kernels") Alternative would be to force an alignment on "struct ipv6_pinfo", greater or equal to __alignof__(any ipv6 sock) to ensure there is no padding. This does not look great. v2: fix typo in mptcp_proto_v6_init() (Paolo) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Chao Wu Cc: Wei Wang Cc: Coco Li Cc: YiFei Zhu Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/mptcp/protocol.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'net/mptcp/protocol.c') diff --git a/net/mptcp/protocol.c b/net/mptcp/protocol.c index 3613489eb6e3..22323b1fa184 100644 --- a/net/mptcp/protocol.c +++ b/net/mptcp/protocol.c @@ -3988,6 +3988,7 @@ int __init mptcp_proto_v6_init(void) strcpy(mptcp_v6_prot.name, "MPTCPv6"); mptcp_v6_prot.slab = NULL; mptcp_v6_prot.obj_size = sizeof(struct mptcp6_sock); + mptcp_v6_prot.ipv6_pinfo_offset = offsetof(struct mptcp6_sock, np); err = proto_register(&mptcp_v6_prot, 1); if (err) -- cgit v1.2.3