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[net-next,v2,1/4] flow_dissector: add meaningful comments

Message ID 20191029135053.10055-2-mcroce@redhat.com
State Accepted
Delegated to: David Miller
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Series ICMP flow improvements | expand

Commit Message

Matteo Croce Oct. 29, 2019, 1:50 p.m. UTC 
Documents two piece of code which can't be understood at a glance.

Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <mcroce@redhat.com>
---
 include/net/flow_dissector.h | 1 +
 net/core/flow_dissector.c    | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/include/net/flow_dissector.h b/include/net/flow_dissector.h
index 90bd210be060..7747af3cc500 100644
--- a/include/net/flow_dissector.h
+++ b/include/net/flow_dissector.h
@@ -282,6 +282,7 @@  struct flow_keys {
 	struct flow_dissector_key_vlan cvlan;
 	struct flow_dissector_key_keyid keyid;
 	struct flow_dissector_key_ports ports;
+	/* 'addrs' must be the last member */
 	struct flow_dissector_key_addrs addrs;
 };
 
diff --git a/net/core/flow_dissector.c b/net/core/flow_dissector.c
index 7c09d87d3269..affde70dad47 100644
--- a/net/core/flow_dissector.c
+++ b/net/core/flow_dissector.c
@@ -1374,6 +1374,9 @@  static inline size_t flow_keys_hash_length(const struct flow_keys *flow)
 {
 	size_t diff = FLOW_KEYS_HASH_OFFSET + sizeof(flow->addrs);
 	BUILD_BUG_ON((sizeof(*flow) - FLOW_KEYS_HASH_OFFSET) % sizeof(u32));
+	/* flow.addrs MUST be the last member in struct flow_keys because
+	 * different L3 protocols have different address length
+	 */
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(offsetof(typeof(*flow), addrs) !=
 		     sizeof(*flow) - sizeof(flow->addrs));
 
@@ -1421,6 +1424,9 @@  __be32 flow_get_u32_dst(const struct flow_keys *flow)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(flow_get_u32_dst);
 
+/* Sort the source and destination IP (and the ports if the IP are the same),
+ * to have consistent hash within the two directions
+ */
 static inline void __flow_hash_consistentify(struct flow_keys *keys)
 {
 	int addr_diff, i;