netdev - Re: [RFC net-next 03/12] net: remove inet6_reqsk

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Date:	Wed, 25 Jun 2014 16:17:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	octavian.purdila@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next 03/12] net: remove inet6_reqsk_alloc

From: Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@...el.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 21:42:40 +0300

> Since pktops is only used for IPv6 only and opts is used for IPv4
> only, we can move these fields into a union and this allows us to drop
> the inet6_reqsk_alloc function as after this change it becomes
> equivalent with inet_reqsk_alloc.
> 
> This patch also fixes an kmemcheck issue in the IPv6 stack: the flags
> field was not annotated after a request_sock was allocated.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@...el.com>

What about ipv4 mapped ipv6 connections?  I don't think it's safe to
share the space for these two fields.
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