netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] can: Unify droping of invalid tx skbs and netdev stats

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Message-ID: <4B4B786E.80609@pengutronix.de>
Date:	Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:13:50 +0100
From:	Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>
To:	Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@...tkopp.net>
CC:	Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@...ndegger.com>,
	SocketCAN Core Mailing List <socketcan-core@...ts.berlios.de>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] can: Unify droping of invalid tx skbs and
 netdev	stats

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Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
> Oliver Hartkopp wrote:
>> Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
> 
>>>>  
>>>> +	if (skb->len != sizeof(*cf) || cf->can_dlc > 8) {
>>>> +		kfree_skb(skb);
>>>> +		dev->stats.tx_dropped++;
>>>> +		return NETDEV_TX_OK;
>>>> +	}
>>> A static inline function "invalid_can_skb(skb)" (or "no_can_skb") would
>>> be handy here:
>>>
>>> 	if (invalid_can_skb(skb)) {
>>> 		kfree_skb(skb);
>>> 		dev->stats.tx_dropped++;
>>> 		return NETDEV_TX_OK;		
>>> 	}
>> Another idea could be:
> 
>> 	if (can_dropped_invalid_skb(skb, dev))
>> 		return NETDEV_TX_OK;
> 
>> with
> 
>> static inline int can_dropped_invalid_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
>> {
>> 	const struct can_frame *cf = (struct can_frame *)skb->data;
> 
>> 	if (unlikely(skb->len != sizeof(*cf) || cf->can_dlc > 8)) {
>> 		kfree_skb(skb);
>> 		dev->stats.tx_dropped++;
>> 		return 1;
>> 	}
> 
>> 	return 0;
>> }
> 
> this functions looks nice, but I'd swap its arguments, in order to have
> the same signature as the alloc_can_skb() functions

I mean...have the struct net device the first argument

Marc
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