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| author |   Eyal Birger <eyal.birger@gmail.com> | 2015-03-01 14:58:31 +0200 |
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| committer |   David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2015-03-02 00:19:30 -0500 |
| commit | 744d5a3e9fe2690dd85d9991dbb078301694658b (patch) | |
| tree | e8e54af77636cf51a1146cd638275f940bfe3db9 /net/phonet/datagram.c | |
| parent | net: add common accessor for setting dropcount on packets (diff) | |
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net: move skb->dropcount to skb->cb[]
Commit 977750076d98 ("af_packet: add interframe drop cmsg (v6)")
unionized skb->mark and skb->dropcount in order to allow recording
of the socket drop count while maintaining struct sk_buff size.
skb->dropcount was introduced since there was no available room
in skb->cb[] in packet sockets. However, its introduction led to
the inability to export skb->mark, or any other aliased field to
userspace if so desired.
Moving the dropcount metric to skb->cb[] eliminates this problem
at the expense of 4 bytes less in skb->cb[] for protocol families
using it.
Signed-off-by: Eyal Birger <eyal.birger@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/phonet/datagram.c')
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