netdev - Re: [Patch net-next v3] net: clean up skb headers code

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Date:	Thu, 30 May 2013 22:05:18 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	<David.Laight@...LAB.COM>, <amwang@...hat.com>,
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <horms@...ge.net.au>
Subject: Re: [Patch net-next v3] net: clean up skb headers code

On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 13:16 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: "David Laight" <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
> Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 12:18:13 +0100
> 
> >> commit 1a37e412a0225fcba5587 (net: Use 16bits for *_headers
> >> fields of struct skbuff) converts skb->*_header to u16,
> >> some #if NET_SKBUFF_DATA_USES_OFFSET are now useless,
> >> and to be safe, we could just use "X = ~(typeof(X))0;"
> >> as suggested by David and Ben.
> > 
> > IIRC ~(unsigned short)0 is the same as ~0 and will be -1.
> > define an actual constant with value 0xffff
> 
> The problem with doing that is that if this type is changed again,
> we'lll go through this same circus changing the constant everywhere
> and missing some cases.
> 
> I absolutely want to see a version of this fix that makes sure that if
> the type changes, either the constantly automatically change (that's
> the "typeof(X)" approach) or the build breaks spectacularly until the
> value is fixed up.

Let's just give the 'invalid' value a name and define it right next to
those fields.  It might be worth reintroducing sk_buff_data_t too, since
there was at least one place which wanted to save and restore offsets in
local variables.

Ben.

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