# \[PATCH RFC v2 15/16\] virtio\_net: fix types for in memory structures

- Subsystems: THE REST, VIRTIO CORE, VIRTIO NET DRIVER
- Maintainers: Linus Torvalds, "Michael S. Tsirkin", Jason Wang, Eugenio Pérez
- Status: SUPERSEDED (Superseded by v8 posted 2014-12-01)
- Superseded by v8 (posted 2014-12-01).
- Revision v2 (7 revisions archived).
- List: linux-api
- 1 message, 1 author
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-api/2014/10/4356789/t

## \[PATCH RFC v2 15/16\] virtio\_net: fix types for in memory structures

- From: Michael S. Tsirkin \<mst@redhat.com\>
- Date: 2014-10-22 15:49:04 
- Message: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-api/2014/10/4356789.md

```text
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
---
 include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h | 15 ++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
index 172a7f0..b5f1677 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 #include <linux/types.h>
 #include <linux/virtio_ids.h>
 #include <linux/virtio_config.h>
+#include <linux/virtio_types.h>
 #include <linux/if_ether.h>
 
 /* The feature bitmap for virtio net */
@@ -84,17 +85,17 @@ struct virtio_net_hdr {
 #define VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_TCPV6	4	// GSO frame, IPv6 TCP
 #define VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_ECN		0x80	// TCP has ECN set
 	__u8 gso_type;
-	__u16 hdr_len;		/* Ethernet + IP + tcp/udp hdrs */
-	__u16 gso_size;		/* Bytes to append to hdr_len per frame */
-	__u16 csum_start;	/* Position to start checksumming from */
-	__u16 csum_offset;	/* Offset after that to place checksum */
+	__virtio16 hdr_len;		/* Ethernet + IP + tcp/udp hdrs */
+	__virtio16 gso_size;		/* Bytes to append to hdr_len per frame */
+	__virtio16 csum_start;	/* Position to start checksumming from */
+	__virtio16 csum_offset;	/* Offset after that to place checksum */
 };
 
 /* This is the version of the header to use when the MRG_RXBUF
  * feature has been negotiated. */
 struct virtio_net_hdr_mrg_rxbuf {
 	struct virtio_net_hdr hdr;
-	__u16 num_buffers;	/* Number of merged rx buffers */
+	__virtio16 num_buffers;	/* Number of merged rx buffers */
 };
 
 /*
@@ -149,7 +150,7 @@ typedef __u8 virtio_net_ctrl_ack;
  * VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_MAC_ADDR feature is available.
  */
 struct virtio_net_ctrl_mac {
-	__u32 entries;
+	__virtio32 entries;
 	__u8 macs[][ETH_ALEN];
 } __attribute__((packed));
 
@@ -193,7 +194,7 @@ struct virtio_net_ctrl_mac {
  * specified.
  */
 struct virtio_net_ctrl_mq {
-	__u16 virtqueue_pairs;
+	__virtio16 virtqueue_pairs;
 };
 
 #define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MQ   4
-- 
MST
```