Re: [RFC PATCH net] net: Work around lockdep limitation in sockets that use sockets

David Miller [off-list ref] wrote:

I guess this is fine, but I think you can use one of the two "sk_padding"
bits in struct sock instead of making the structure larger.

It shouldn't make the structure larger since there's a hole in the structure:

		unsigned int		sk_padding : 2,
					sk_no_check_tx : 1,
					sk_no_check_rx : 1,
					sk_userlocks : 4,
					sk_protocol  : 8,
					sk_type      : 16;
	#define SK_PROTOCOL_MAX U8_MAX
		kmemcheck_bitfield_end(flags);

		u16			sk_gso_max_segs;
  ---> 2-byte hole here
		unsigned long	        sk_lingertime;

but I'll quite happily shift it to sk_padding.

Thanks,
David