> -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Talpey > Sent: Monday, August 14, 2017 12:00 PM > To: Long Li <lon...@microsoft.com>; Christoph Hellwig <h...@infradead.org> > Cc: Steve French <sfre...@samba.org>; linux-c...@vger.kernel.org; samba- > techni...@lists.samba.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: RE: [[PATCH v1] 16/37] [CIFS] SMBD: Post a SMBD message with no > payload > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: linux-cifs-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-cifs- > > ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Long Li > > Sent: Monday, August 14, 2017 2:20 PM > > To: Christoph Hellwig <h...@infradead.org> > > Cc: Steve French <sfre...@samba.org>; linux-c...@vger.kernel.org; > > samba- techni...@lists.samba.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > Subject: RE: [[PATCH v1] 16/37] [CIFS] SMBD: Post a SMBD message with > > no payload > > > > > > Implement the function to send a SMBD message with no payload. > > > > This is > > > required at times when we want to extend credtis to server to have > > > it continue to send data, without sending any actual data payload. > > > > > > Shouldn't this just be implemented as a special case in the version > > > that posts data? > > > > It uses a different packet format "struct smbd_data_transfer_no_data". > > I can restructure some common code to share between packet sending > functions. > > The SMB Direct keepalive is just a Data Transfer Message with no payload > (MS-SMBD section 2.2.3) and the SMB_DIRECT_RESPONSE_REQUESTED flag > possibly set. I don't see any need to define a special structure to describe > this?
Data Transfer Message has the following extra fields at the end of an empty packet. __le32 padding; char buffer[0]; I agree with you those can be merged to a special structure case. Will make the change. > > Tom.