[IPV4]: Add 'rtable' field in struct sk_buff to alias 'dst' and avoid casts
(Anonymous) unions can help us to avoid ugly casts.
A common cast it the (struct rtable *)skb->dst one.
Defining an union like :
union {
struct dst_entry *dst;
struct rtable *rtable;
};
permits to use skb->rtable in place.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
index 3873c4d..a79e324 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
@@ -552,7 +552,7 @@
if (th->rst)
return;
- if (((struct rtable *)skb->dst)->rt_type != RTN_LOCAL)
+ if (skb->rtable->rt_type != RTN_LOCAL)
return;
/* Swap the send and the receive. */
@@ -1262,8 +1262,7 @@
#endif
/* Never answer to SYNs send to broadcast or multicast */
- if (((struct rtable *)skb->dst)->rt_flags &
- (RTCF_BROADCAST | RTCF_MULTICAST))
+ if (skb->rtable->rt_flags & (RTCF_BROADCAST | RTCF_MULTICAST))
goto drop;
/* TW buckets are converted to open requests without