netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] Add payload to be 32-bit aligned to fix dropped packets

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Date:   Tue, 19 Oct 2021 07:52:41 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Kumar Thangavel <kumarthangavel.hcl@...il.com>
Cc:     Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@...dozajonas.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        openbmc@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-aspeed@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        patrickw3@...com, Amithash Prasad <amithash@...com>,
        velumanit@....com, sdasari@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add payload to be 32-bit aligned to fix dropped
 packets

On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 20:11:27 +0530 Kumar Thangavel wrote:
>  	len += sizeof(struct ncsi_cmd_pkt_hdr) + 4;
> -	if (nca->payload < 26)
> +	payload = ALIGN(nca->payload, 4)
> +	if (payload < 26)
>  		len += 26;
>  	else
> -		len += nca->payload;
> +		len += payload;

You round up to 4 and then add 26 if the result is smaller.  26 is not
a multiple of 4. Is this intentional?

Also you can write this on one line:

	len += max(payload, 26);