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authorMarc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>2018-10-08 09:02:39 +0200
committerMarc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>2019-09-04 13:29:15 +0200
commit8df9ffb888c021fa68f9075d545f2ec5eca37200 (patch)
treec783503e0599f77685c82925a36bfa3f0a2a9794 /drivers/net/can/dev.c
parentcan: introduce CAN midlayer private and allocate it automatically (diff)
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can: make use of preallocated can_ml_priv for per device struct can_dev_rcv_lists
This patch removes the old method of allocating the per device protocol specific memory via a netdevice_notifier. This had the drawback, that the allocation can fail, leading to a lot of null pointer checks in the code. This also makes the live cycle management of this memory quite complicated. This patch switches from the allocating the struct can_dev_rcv_lists in a NETDEV_REGISTER call to using the dev->ml_priv, which is allocated by the driver since the previous patch. Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de> Acked-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net> Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/can/dev.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/can/dev.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/can/dev.c b/drivers/net/can/dev.c
index 9e688dc29521..b429550c4cc2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/can/dev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/can/dev.c
@@ -746,6 +746,8 @@ struct net_device *alloc_candev_mqs(int sizeof_priv, unsigned int echo_skb_max,
priv = netdev_priv(dev);
priv->dev = dev;
+ dev->ml_priv = (void *)priv + ALIGN(sizeof_priv, NETDEV_ALIGN);
+
if (echo_skb_max) {
priv->echo_skb_max = echo_skb_max;
priv->echo_skb = (void *)priv +