can: add CAN skb extension infrastructure

2026-02-05T10:58:39+00:00

To remove the private CAN bus skb headroom infrastructure 8 bytes need to be stored in the skb. The skb extensions are a common pattern and an easy and efficient way to hold private data travelling along with the skb. We only need the skb_ext_add() and skb_ext_find() functions to allocate and access CAN specific content as the skb helpers to copy/clone/free skbs automatically take care of skb extensions and their final removal. This patch introduces the complete CAN skb extensions infrastructure: - add struct can_skb_ext in new file include/net/can.h - add include/net/can.h in MAINTAINERS - add SKB_EXT_CAN to skbuff.c and skbuff.h - select SKB_EXTENSIONS in Kconfig when CONFIG_CAN is enabled - check for existing CAN skb extensions in can_rcv() in af_can.c - add CAN skb extensions allocation at every skb_alloc() location - duplicate the skb extensions if cloning outgoing skbs (framelen/gw_hops) - introduce can_skb_ext_add() and can_skb_ext_find() helpers The patch also corrects an indention issue in the original code from 2018: Reported-by: kernel test robot Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202602010426.PnGrYAk3-lkp@intel.com/ Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260201-can_skb_ext-v8-2-3635d790fe8b@hartkopp.net Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

kernel/linux.git/include/net/can.h, branch v7.0-rc7

can: add CAN skb extension infrastructure