Giacomo wrote: > Good evening to everybody. > > In recent kernels (>=2.6.24) netlink_kernel_create() callback function > has the following signature: > > > (void *) function(struct sk_buff* skb); > > while before it was > > (void *) function(struct sock *skctrl, int len) > > In the latter, i used to call skb_dequeue, obtain the skb and then, > once data was extracted, I used > to kfree_skb(skb); where skb is a sk_buff* obtained by skb_dequeue(); > > Now (with the (void *) function(struct sk_buff* skb) callback) I get > data from skb but DO NOT HAVE > TO kfree_skb() it... > > Is it true? Is it automatically freed by the kernel once the callback returns? Right, look at netlink_unicast_kernel() in af_netlink.c -- "Los honestos son inadaptados sociales" -- Les Luthiers -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
