[[PATCH v1] 08/37] [CIFS] SMBD: Define packet format for SMBD data transfer message

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Sun Aug 13 10:15:10 UTC 2017


> +// SMBD data transfer packet with payload [MS-SMBD] 2.2.3
> +struct smbd_data_transfer {
> +	__le16 credits_requested;
> +	__le16 credits_granted;
> +	__le16 flags;
> +	__le16 reserved;
> +	__le32 remaining_data_length;
> +	__le32 data_offset;
> +	__le32 data_length;
> +	__le32 padding;
> +	char buffer[0];

Please use the actually standardized [] syntax for variable sized
arrays.  Also normally this would be a __u8 to fit with the other
types, but I haven't seen the usage yet.

> +} __packed;

The structure is natually packed already, no need to add the
attribute.



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