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Re: handing cloned frames to netif_rx()?

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On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 09:31 +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Is it ok to do this? Will something freak out if we pass a cloned skb to
> > netif_rx()?
> 
> Sounds OK as long as you stick to the rules of cloned skb's, e.g., not
> writing to them unless you've copied it.

Ok. Yes, we will of course adhere to that, but I was wondering whether
maybe the net stack assumes somewhere that a packet it got from the
driver can be written to w/o copying.

johannes

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