can: add CAN skb extension infrastructure

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 <lkp@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202602010426.PnGrYAk3-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260201-can_skb_ext-v8-2-3635d790fe8b@hartkopp.net
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

3 files changed, 48 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/can/skb.h b/include/linux/can/skb.h
index 869ea574a40a..68c0f24e6914 100644
--- a/include/linux/can/skb.h
+++ b/include/linux/can/skb.h
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 #include <linux/types.h>
 #include <linux/skbuff.h>
 #include <linux/can.h>
+#include <net/can.h>
 #include <net/sock.h>
 
 void can_flush_echo_skb(struct net_device *dev);
@@ -68,6 +69,22 @@ static inline void can_skb_reserve(struct sk_buff *skb)
 	skb_reserve(skb, sizeof(struct can_skb_priv));
 }
 
+static inline struct can_skb_ext *can_skb_ext_add(struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+	struct can_skb_ext *csx = skb_ext_add(skb, SKB_EXT_CAN);
+
+	/* skb_ext_add() returns uninitialized space */
+	if (csx)
+		csx->can_gw_hops = 0;
+
+	return csx;
+}
+
+static inline struct can_skb_ext *can_skb_ext_find(struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+	return skb_ext_find(skb, SKB_EXT_CAN);
+}
+
 static inline void can_skb_set_owner(struct sk_buff *skb, struct sock *sk)
 {
 	/* If the socket has already been closed by user space, the
diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index 8b399ddf1b9b..ef56dc6318d3 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -4990,6 +4990,9 @@ enum skb_ext_id {
 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_INET_PSP)
 	SKB_EXT_PSP,
 #endif
+#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CAN)
+	SKB_EXT_CAN,
+#endif
 	SKB_EXT_NUM, /* must be last */
 };
 
diff --git a/include/net/can.h b/include/net/can.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6db9e826f0e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/net/can.h
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause) */
+/*
+ * net/can.h
+ *
+ * Definitions for the CAN network socket buffer extensions
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
+ *
+ */
+
+#ifndef _NET_CAN_H
+#define _NET_CAN_H
+
+/**
+ * struct can_skb_ext - skb extensions for CAN specific content
+ * @can_iif: ifindex of the first interface the CAN frame appeared on
+ * @can_framelen: cached echo CAN frame length for bql
+ * @can_gw_hops: can-gw CAN frame time-to-live counter
+ * @can_ext_flags: CAN skb extensions flags
+ */
+struct can_skb_ext {
+	int	can_iif;
+	u16	can_framelen;
+	u8	can_gw_hops;
+	u8	can_ext_flags;
+};
+
+#endif /* _NET_CAN_H */