Hello!
> Wouldn't it be better to have a consistent interface (skb always freed),
> and clone the skb if needed for deferred processing?
I think you mean this.
Note, it is real skb_clone(), not alloc_skb(). Equeued skb contains
the whole half-prepared netlink message plus room for the rest.
It could be also skb_copy(), if we want to be puristic about mangling
cloned data, but original copy is really not going to be used.
Alexey
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipmr.c b/net/ipv4/ipmr.c
index 9ccacf5..85893ee 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ipmr.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ipmr.c
@@ -1578,6 +1578,7 @@ int ipmr_get_route(struct sk_buff *skb,
cache = ipmr_cache_find(rt->rt_src, rt->rt_dst);
if (cache==NULL) {
+ struct sk_buff *skb2;
struct net_device *dev;
int vif;
@@ -1591,12 +1592,18 @@ int ipmr_get_route(struct sk_buff *skb,
read_unlock(&mrt_lock);
return -ENODEV;
}
- skb->nh.raw = skb_push(skb, sizeof(struct iphdr));
- skb->nh.iph->ihl = sizeof(struct iphdr)>>2;
- skb->nh.iph->saddr = rt->rt_src;
- skb->nh.iph->daddr = rt->rt_dst;
- skb->nh.iph->version = 0;
- err = ipmr_cache_unresolved(vif, skb);
+ skb2 = skb_clone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ if (!skb2) {
+ read_unlock(&mrt_lock);
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ }
+
+ skb2->nh.raw = skb_push(skb2, sizeof(struct iphdr));
+ skb2->nh.iph->ihl = sizeof(struct iphdr)>>2;
+ skb2->nh.iph->saddr = rt->rt_src;
+ skb2->nh.iph->daddr = rt->rt_dst;
+ skb2->nh.iph->version = 0;
+ err = ipmr_cache_unresolved(vif, skb2);
read_unlock(&mrt_lock);
return err;
}
-
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