batman-adv: fix header alignment by unrolling batadv_header
The size of the batadv_header of 3 is problematic on some architectures
which automatically pad all structures to a 32 bit boundary. To not lose
performance by packing this struct, better embed it into the various
host structures.
Reported-by: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/send.c b/net/batman-adv/send.c
index c83be5e..fba4dcf 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/send.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/send.c
@@ -161,11 +161,11 @@
return false;
unicast_packet = (struct batadv_unicast_packet *)skb->data;
- unicast_packet->header.version = BATADV_COMPAT_VERSION;
+ unicast_packet->version = BATADV_COMPAT_VERSION;
/* batman packet type: unicast */
- unicast_packet->header.packet_type = BATADV_UNICAST;
+ unicast_packet->packet_type = BATADV_UNICAST;
/* set unicast ttl */
- unicast_packet->header.ttl = BATADV_TTL;
+ unicast_packet->ttl = BATADV_TTL;
/* copy the destination for faster routing */
memcpy(unicast_packet->dest, orig_node->orig, ETH_ALEN);
/* set the destination tt version number */
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@
goto out;
uc_4addr_packet = (struct batadv_unicast_4addr_packet *)skb->data;
- uc_4addr_packet->u.header.packet_type = BATADV_UNICAST_4ADDR;
+ uc_4addr_packet->u.packet_type = BATADV_UNICAST_4ADDR;
memcpy(uc_4addr_packet->src, primary_if->net_dev->dev_addr, ETH_ALEN);
uc_4addr_packet->subtype = packet_subtype;
uc_4addr_packet->reserved = 0;
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@
/* as we have a copy now, it is safe to decrease the TTL */
bcast_packet = (struct batadv_bcast_packet *)newskb->data;
- bcast_packet->header.ttl--;
+ bcast_packet->ttl--;
skb_reset_mac_header(newskb);