From: Doug Ledford <dledf...@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 11:20:59 -0400
> We *had* a safe way to do that. It got broken. What about increasing > the size of skb->cb? Or adding a skb->dgid that is a > u8[INFINIBAND_ALEN]? Or a more generic skb->dest_ll_addr that is sized > to hold the dest address for any link layer? I understand the situation, and I also believe that making sk_buff any huger than it already is happens to be a non-starter. >> Pushing metadata before the head of the SKB data pointer is illegal, >> as the layers in between might want to push protocol headers, > > That's a total non-issue for us. There are no headers that protocols > can add before ours. Ok, if that's the case, and based upon Paolo's response to me it appears to be, I guess this is OK for now. Paolo please resubmit your patch, thanks.
