netdev - Re: [PATCH] bonding: Fix corrupted queue

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Date:	Thu, 07 Jun 2012 23:15:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	therbert@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bonding: Fix corrupted queue_mapping

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 08:11:21 +0200

> On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 23:02 -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> Hmmm, isn't that what qdisc_skb_cb is for?  And even private data is
>> explicitly allocated:
>> 
>> >  	unsigned char		data[24];
>> 
>> there. :-)
>> 
> 
> Yes, but some other layers can use the same trick so it might collide.
> 
> Inserting the bond field in qdisc_skb_cb (level0) is safer.

Do you suggest that Infiniband does the same thing? :-)
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