On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 14:44:26 -0400, Eric Garver wrote: > On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 08:31:52PM +0300, Eyal Birger wrote: > > Just seemed less future safe to keep a pointer to an old packet lying > > around. > > I agree. Alternatively refresh the eth pointer.
Sorry guys, that just doesn't make sense. Everyone should know that reloading of skb pointer means the former pointers to its data may become invalid. Please point me to any place in the kernel where we reload the data pointer "just because" even when not used. Jiri
