On Tue, 2015-10-06 at 10:50 -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote: > was also thinking that we can do it only in paths that actually > have multiple protocol layers, since today bpf is mainly used with > tcpdump(raw_socket) and new af_packet fanout both have cb cleared > on RX, because it just came out of alloc_skb and no layers were called, > and on TX we can clear 20 bytes in dev_queue_xmit_nit(). > af_unix/netlink also have clean skb. Need to analyze tun and sctp... > but it feels overly fragile to save a branch in sk_filter, > so planning to go with > if(unlikely(prog->cb_access)) memset in sk_filter(). > This will break TCP use of sk_filter(). skb->cb[] contains useful data in TCP layer. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
