ipv6: remove hard coded limitation on ipv6_pinfo
IPv6 inet sockets are supposed to have a "struct ipv6_pinfo" field at the end of their definition, so that inet6_sk_generic() can derive from socket size the offset of the "struct ipv6_pinfo". This is very fragile, and prevents adding bigger alignment in sockets, because inet6_sk_generic() does not work if the compiler adds padding after the ipv6_pinfo component. We are currently working on a patch series to reorganize TCP structures for better data locality and found issues similar to the one fixed in commit f5d54767 ("tcp: fix tcp_inet6_sk() for 32bit kernels") Alternative would be to force an alignment on "struct ipv6_pinfo", greater or equal to __alignof__(any ipv6 sock) to ensure there is no padding. This does not look great. v2: fix typo in mptcp_proto_v6_init() (Paolo) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Chao Wu <wwchao@google.com> Cc: Wei Wang <weiwan@google.com> Cc: Coco Li <lixiaoyan@google.com> Cc: YiFei Zhu <zhuyifei@google.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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