[PATCH net-next 1/4] flow_dissector: add meaningful comments

From: Matteo Croce
Date: Mon Oct 21 2019 - 16:10:33 EST


Documents two piece of code which can't be understood at a glance.

Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <mcroce@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/net/flow_dissector.h | 1 +
net/core/flow_dissector.c | 6 ++++++
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/net/flow_dissector.h b/include/net/flow_dissector.h
index 90bd210be060..7747af3cc500 100644
--- a/include/net/flow_dissector.h
+++ b/include/net/flow_dissector.h
@@ -282,6 +282,7 @@ struct flow_keys {
struct flow_dissector_key_vlan cvlan;
struct flow_dissector_key_keyid keyid;
struct flow_dissector_key_ports ports;
+ /* 'addrs' must be the last member */
struct flow_dissector_key_addrs addrs;
};

diff --git a/net/core/flow_dissector.c b/net/core/flow_dissector.c
index 7c09d87d3269..affde70dad47 100644
--- a/net/core/flow_dissector.c
+++ b/net/core/flow_dissector.c
@@ -1374,6 +1374,9 @@ static inline size_t flow_keys_hash_length(const struct flow_keys *flow)
{
size_t diff = FLOW_KEYS_HASH_OFFSET + sizeof(flow->addrs);
BUILD_BUG_ON((sizeof(*flow) - FLOW_KEYS_HASH_OFFSET) % sizeof(u32));
+ /* flow.addrs MUST be the last member in struct flow_keys because
+ * different L3 protocols have different address length
+ */
BUILD_BUG_ON(offsetof(typeof(*flow), addrs) !=
sizeof(*flow) - sizeof(flow->addrs));

@@ -1421,6 +1424,9 @@ __be32 flow_get_u32_dst(const struct flow_keys *flow)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(flow_get_u32_dst);

+/* Sort the source and destination IP (and the ports if the IP are the same),
+ * to have consistent hash within the two directions
+ */
static inline void __flow_hash_consistentify(struct flow_keys *keys)
{
int addr_diff, i;
--
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