Re: [RFC PATCH net] net: Work around lockdep limitation in sockets that use sockets

From: David Howells
Date: Thu Mar 09 2017 - 02:51:42 EST


David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I guess this is fine, but I think you can use one of the two "sk_padding"
> bits in struct sock instead of making the structure larger.

It shouldn't make the structure larger since there's a hole in the structure:

unsigned int sk_padding : 2,
sk_no_check_tx : 1,
sk_no_check_rx : 1,
sk_userlocks : 4,
sk_protocol : 8,
sk_type : 16;
#define SK_PROTOCOL_MAX U8_MAX
kmemcheck_bitfield_end(flags);

u16 sk_gso_max_segs;
---> 2-byte hole here
unsigned long sk_lingertime;

but I'll quite happily shift it to sk_padding.

Thanks,
David