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authorSimon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>2013-12-02 20:38:31 +0100
committerAntonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>2013-12-28 12:51:16 +0100
commita40d9b075c21f06872de3f05cc2eb3d06665e2ff (patch)
tree85aefae654246aa4f89e046bb0bca6b5b85b76f6 /net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c
parentbatman-adv: fix alignment for batadv_coded_packet (diff)
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batman-adv: fix header alignment by unrolling batadv_header
The size of the batadv_header of 3 is problematic on some architectures which automatically pad all structures to a 32 bit boundary. To not lose performance by packing this struct, better embed it into the various host structures. Reported-by: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Diffstat (limited to '')
-rw-r--r--net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c b/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c
index 36f050876f82..b4881f8e28e8 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c
@@ -264,11 +264,11 @@ static int batadv_interface_tx(struct sk_buff *skb,
goto dropped;
bcast_packet = (struct batadv_bcast_packet *)skb->data;
- bcast_packet->header.version = BATADV_COMPAT_VERSION;
- bcast_packet->header.ttl = BATADV_TTL;
+ bcast_packet->version = BATADV_COMPAT_VERSION;
+ bcast_packet->ttl = BATADV_TTL;
/* batman packet type: broadcast */
- bcast_packet->header.packet_type = BATADV_BCAST;
+ bcast_packet->packet_type = BATADV_BCAST;
bcast_packet->reserved = 0;
/* hw address of first interface is the orig mac because only
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ void batadv_interface_rx(struct net_device *soft_iface,
struct sk_buff *skb, struct batadv_hard_iface *recv_if,
int hdr_size, struct batadv_orig_node *orig_node)
{
- struct batadv_header *batadv_header = (struct batadv_header *)skb->data;
+ struct batadv_bcast_packet *batadv_bcast_packet;
struct batadv_priv *bat_priv = netdev_priv(soft_iface);
__be16 ethertype = htons(ETH_P_BATMAN);
struct vlan_ethhdr *vhdr;
@@ -336,7 +336,8 @@ void batadv_interface_rx(struct net_device *soft_iface,
unsigned short vid;
bool is_bcast;
- is_bcast = (batadv_header->packet_type == BATADV_BCAST);
+ batadv_bcast_packet = (struct batadv_bcast_packet *)skb->data;
+ is_bcast = (batadv_bcast_packet->packet_type == BATADV_BCAST);
/* check if enough space is available for pulling, and pull */
if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, hdr_size))