Re: [PATCH v4 2/7] net/tcp: Consistently align TCP-AO option in the header

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Wed Nov 29 2023 - 12:02:23 EST


On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 5:57 PM Dmitry Safonov <dima@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Currently functions that pre-calculate TCP header options length use
> unaligned TCP-AO header + MAC-length for skb reservation.
> And the functions that actually write TCP-AO options into skb do align
> the header. Nothing good can come out of this for ((maclen % 4) != 0).
>
> Provide tcp_ao_len_aligned() helper and use it everywhere for TCP
> header options space calculations.
>
> Fixes: 1e03d32bea8e ("net/tcp: Add TCP-AO sign to outgoing packets")
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>