Re: [[PATCH v1] 08/37] [CIFS] SMBD: Define packet format for SMBD data transfer message

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sun Aug 13 2017 - 06:15:19 EST


> +// SMBD data transfer packet with payload [MS-SMBD] 2.2.3
> +struct smbd_data_transfer {
> + __le16 credits_requested;
> + __le16 credits_granted;
> + __le16 flags;
> + __le16 reserved;
> + __le32 remaining_data_length;
> + __le32 data_offset;
> + __le32 data_length;
> + __le32 padding;
> + char buffer[0];

Please use the actually standardized [] syntax for variable sized
arrays. Also normally this would be a __u8 to fit with the other
types, but I haven't seen the usage yet.

> +} __packed;

The structure is natually packed already, no need to add the
attribute.