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

[David Miller]

From: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2017 07:51:34 +0000

> 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:
 ...
> 		u16			sk_gso_max_segs;
>   ---> 2-byte hole here
> 		unsigned long	        sk_lingertime;
> 
> but I'll quite happily shift it to sk_padding.

Ok, then that's fine.