netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/3] vsockmon: Add vsockmon device.

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Date:	Wed, 10 Aug 2016 12:51:58 +0100
From:	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...hat.com>
To:	ggarcia@...a.uab.cat
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jhansen@...are.com, mst@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] vsockmon: Add vsockmon device.

On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 06:14:41PM +0200, ggarcia@...a.uab.cat wrote:
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/vsockmon.h b/include/uapi/linux/vsockmon.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..739b4bf
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/vsockmon.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
> +#ifndef _UAPI_VSOCKMON_H
> +#define _UAPI_VSOCKMON_H
> +
> +#include <linux/virtio_vsock.h>
> +
> +/* Structure of packets received trought the vsockmon device. */
> +
> +struct af_vsockmon_hdr {
> +	__le64 src_cid;
> +	__le64 dst_cid;
> +	__le32 src_port;
> +	__le32 dst_port;
> +	__le16 op;			/* enum af_vsockmon_op */
> +	__le16 t;			/* enum af_vosckmon_t */
> +	__le16 len;			/* sizeof(t_hdr) */
> +	union {
> +		struct virtio_vsock_hdr virtio_hdr;
> +	} t_hdr;
> +} __attribute__((packed));

This struct will change in size if/when VMCI transport support is added.
Existing binaries that were complied against the old header file would
use an incorrect size.

It would be cleaner to drop t_hdr from the struct and force users to
explicitly use af_vsockmon_hdr.len to handle the size of the headers.

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