On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 07:10:58AM -0700, John Fastabend wrote:
> From: John Fastabend <john.fastab...@gmail.com>
> 
> The skb->mark field is a union with reserved_tailroom which is used
> in the TCP code paths from stream memory allocation. Allowing SK_SKB
> programs to set this field creates a conflict with future code
> optimizations, such as "gifting" the skb to the egress path instead
> of creating a new skb and doing a memcpy.
> 
> Because we do not have a released version of SK_SKB yet lets just
> remove it for now. A more appropriate scratch pad to use at the
> socket layer is dev_scratch, but lets add that in future kernels
> when needed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.fastab...@gmail.com>
> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <dan...@iogearbox.net>

Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <a...@kernel.org>

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