Re: title. Tail or trailing?

On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 06:13:11PM -0300, Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca wrote:

+static inline void rtl8_4_write_tag(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
+				    char *tag)
 {
 	struct dsa_port *dp = dsa_slave_to_port(dev);
-	__be16 *tag;
-
-	skb_push(skb, RTL8_4_TAG_LEN);
-
-	dsa_alloc_etype_header(skb, RTL8_4_TAG_LEN);
-	tag = dsa_etype_header_pos_tx(skb);
+	__be16 *tag16 = (__be16 *)tag;

Can the tail tag be aligned to an odd offset? In that case, should you
access byte by byte, maybe? I'm not sure how arches handle this.

 
 	/* Set Realtek EtherType */
-	tag[0] = htons(ETH_P_REALTEK);
+	tag16[0] = htons(ETH_P_REALTEK);
 
 	/* Set Protocol; zero REASON */
-	tag[1] = htons(FIELD_PREP(RTL8_4_PROTOCOL, RTL8_4_PROTOCOL_RTL8365MB));
+	tag16[1] = htons(FIELD_PREP(RTL8_4_PROTOCOL, RTL8_4_PROTOCOL_RTL8365MB));
 
 	/* Zero FID_EN, FID, PRI_EN, PRI, KEEP; set LEARN_DIS */
-	tag[2] = htons(FIELD_PREP(RTL8_4_LEARN_DIS, 1));
+	tag16[2] = htons(FIELD_PREP(RTL8_4_LEARN_DIS, 1));
 
 	/* Zero ALLOW; set RX (CPU->switch) forwarding port mask */
-	tag[3] = htons(FIELD_PREP(RTL8_4_RX, BIT(dp->index)));
+	tag16[3] = htons(FIELD_PREP(RTL8_4_RX, BIT(dp->index)));
+}
+
+static struct sk_buff *rtl8_4_tag_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
+				       struct net_device *dev)
+{
+	skb_push(skb, RTL8_4_TAG_LEN);
+
+	dsa_alloc_etype_header(skb, RTL8_4_TAG_LEN);
+
+	rtl8_4_write_tag(skb, dev, dsa_etype_header_pos_tx(skb));
 
 	return skb;
 }
 
-static struct sk_buff *rtl8_4_tag_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb,
-				      struct net_device *dev)
+static struct sk_buff *rtl8_4t_tag_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
+					struct net_device *dev)
+{

Why don't you want to add:

	if (skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_PARTIAL && skb_checksum_help(skb))
		return NULL;

and then you'll make this tagging protocol useful in production too.

+	rtl8_4_write_tag(skb, dev, skb_put(skb, RTL8_4_TAG_LEN));
+
+	return skb;
+}