f6bvp <f6...@free.fr> : > Le 05/03/2016 17:22, David Miller a écrit : [...] > > If that's what he intended he would have implemented the entirety of > > rose_xmit() as "kfree_skb(skb)". But that's obviously not the case. > > > > The author meant the packet to be sent in some way, perhaps using a > > default path or something like that. > > Via a NULL pointer ? > I don't see how it could work.
Ask G4KLX what he meant when he wrote rose_rebuild_header (since that's where Eric B. took rose_xmit from) back in the 2.1.9 era ? See https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/commit/?id=d75df542864496c92ff705d7d072a58b0119a4ff -- Ueimor