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net: Remove all uses of LL_ALLOCATED_SPACE

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net: Remove all uses of LL_ALLOCATED_SPACE

The macro LL_ALLOCATED_SPACE was ill-conceived.  It applies the
alignment to the sum of needed_headroom and needed_tailroom.  As
the amount that is then reserved for head room is needed_headroom
with alignment, this means that the tail room left may be too small.

This patch replaces all uses of LL_ALLOCATED_SPACE with the macro
LL_RESERVED_SPACE and direct reference to needed_tailroom.

This also fixes the problem with needed_headroom changing between
allocating the skb and reserving the head room.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Herbert Xu
2011-11-18 02:20:04 +00:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent a7ae199224
commit ae641949df
5 changed files with 30 additions and 15 deletions
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net/core/netpoll.c
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@@ -422,6 +422,7 @@ static void arp_reply(struct sk_buff *skb)
struct sk_buff *send_skb;
struct netpoll *np, *tmp;
unsigned long flags;
int hlen, tlen;
int hits = 0;
if (list_empty(&npinfo->rx_np))
@@ -479,8 +480,9 @@ static void arp_reply(struct sk_buff *skb)
if (tip != np->local_ip)
continue;
send_skb = find_skb(np, size + LL_ALLOCATED_SPACE(np->dev),
LL_RESERVED_SPACE(np->dev));
hlen = LL_RESERVED_SPACE(np->dev);
tlen = np->dev->needed_tailroom;
send_skb = find_skb(np, size + hlen + tlen, hlen);
if (!send_skb)
continue;