Re: [PATCH net-next 3/5] sctp: add spp_ipv6_flowlabel and spp_dscp for sctp_paddrparams
From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Date: 2018-06-25 16:32:04
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Hi, On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 01:12:00AM +0900, 吉藤英明 wrote:
Hi, 2018-06-25 22:03 GMT+09:00 Marcelo Ricardo Leitner [off-list ref]:quoted
On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 07:28:47AM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:quoted
On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 04:31:26PM +0900, David Miller wrote:quoted
From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 10:14:35 +0800quoted
struct sctp_paddrparams {@@ -773,6 +775,8 @@ struct sctp_paddrparams { __u32 spp_pathmtu; __u32 spp_sackdelay; __u32 spp_flags; + __u32 spp_ipv6_flowlabel; + __u8 spp_dscp; } __attribute__((packed, aligned(4)));I don't think you can change the size of this structure like this. This check in sctp_setsockopt_peer_addr_params(): if (optlen != sizeof(struct sctp_paddrparams)) return -EINVAL; is going to trigger in old kernels when executing programs built against the new struct definition.That will happen, yes, but do we really care about being future-proof here? I mean: if we also update such check(s) to support dealing with smaller-than-supported structs, newer kernels will be able to run programs built against the old struct, and the new one; while building using newer headers and running on older kernel may fool the application in other ways too (like enabling support for something that is available on newer kernel and that is not present in the older one).We should not break existing apps. We still accept apps of pre-2.4 era without sin6_scope_id (e.g., net/ipv6/af_inet6.c:inet6_bind()).
Yes. That's what I tried to say. That is supporting an old app built with old kernel headers and running on a newer kernel, and not the other way around (an app built with fresh headers and running on an old kernel).
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I think thats also the reason its a packed aligned attribute, it can't be changed, or older kernels won't be able to fill it out properly. NeilIt's more for supporting running 32-bits apps on 64-bit kernels (according to 20c9c825b12fc). Marcelo