netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: openvswitch: don't call pad

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Date:   Fri, 15 Nov 2019 12:43:44 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     xiangxia.m.yue@...il.com
Cc:     pshelar@....org, gvrose8192@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        dev@...nvswitch.org, joe@....org, u9012063@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: openvswitch: don't call pad_packet if
 not necessary

From: xiangxia.m.yue@...il.com
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 23:51:08 +0800

> From: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@...il.com>
> 
> The nla_put_u16/nla_put_u32 makes sure that
> *attrlen is align. The call tree is that:
> 
> nla_put_u16/nla_put_u32
>   -> nla_put		attrlen = sizeof(u16) or sizeof(u32)
>   -> __nla_put		attrlen
>   -> __nla_reserve	attrlen
>   -> skb_put(skb, nla_total_size(attrlen))
> 
> nla_total_size returns the total length of attribute
> including padding.
> 
> Cc: Joe Stringer <joe@....org>
> Cc: William Tu <u9012063@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@...il.com>

Applied, thanks.