On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 05:42:52PM +0100, Stefan Schmidt wrote:
> Hello.
>
> On 17/11/15 23:33, Alexander Aring wrote:
> >This patch adds a static inline function ipv6_addr_prefix_cpy which
> >copies a ipv6 address prefix(argument pfx) into the ipv6 address prefix.
> >The prefix len is given by plen as bits. This function mainly based on
> >ipv6_addr_prefix which copies one address prefix from address into a new
> >ipv6 address destination and zero all other address bits.
> >
> >The difference is that ipv6_addr_prefix_cpy don't get a prefix from an
> >ipv6 address, it sets a prefix to an ipv6 address with keeping other
> >address bits. The use case is for context based address compression
> >inside 6LoWPAN IPHC header which keeping ipv6 prefixes inside a context
> >table to lookup address-bits without sending them.
> >
> >Cc: David S. Miller<da...@davemloft.net>
> >Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov<kuz...@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
> >Cc: James Morris<jmor...@namei.org>
> >Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI<yoshf...@linux-ipv6.org>
> >Cc: Patrick McHardy<ka...@trash.net>
> >Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring<alex.ar...@gmail.com>
> >---
> > include/net/ipv6.h | 15 +++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
> >
> >diff --git a/include/net/ipv6.h b/include/net/ipv6.h
> >index e1a10b0..9d38fc2 100644
> >--- a/include/net/ipv6.h
> >+++ b/include/net/ipv6.h
> >@@ -382,6 +382,21 @@ static inline void ipv6_addr_prefix(struct in6_addr
> >*pfx,
> > pfx->s6_addr[o] = addr->s6_addr[o] & (0xff00 >> b);
> > }
> >+static inline void ipv6_addr_prefix_cpy(struct in6_addr *addr,
> >+ const struct in6_addr *pfx,
> >+ int plen)
> >+{
>
> Naming it ipv6_addr_prefix_cop, as Sergei suggested, would be easier to
> read.
ok.
> >+ /* caller must guarantee 0 <= plen <= 128 */
> >+ int o = plen >> 3,
> >+ b = plen & 0x7;
> >+
>
> Any reason you are not doing the memset here before memcpy like it is done
> in ipv6_addr_prefi()?
ipv6_addr_prefix is more a "getter" for a prefix from an address. The
destination address (which should be the result) will memset the whole
address before copy the prefix from address to it.
THe ipv6_addr_prefix_copy will set a prefix given by second parameter
pfx and set the prefix to the address (given by first parameter).
Maybe the ipv6_addr_prefix could call:
1. memset(pfx, sizeof...)
2. ipv6_addr_prefix_copy(pfx, addr, plen);
but ipv6_addr_prefix_copy need to care about other bits which are set at
destination address, if (plen/8 != 0). I don't want to touch
ipv6_addr_prefix function and slow-down some mechanism.
- Alex
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