From: James Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 08:11:11 +1100 (EST)
> On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Paul Moore wrote: > > > Both NetLabel and SELinux (other LSMs may grow to use it as well) rely on > > the > > 'iif' field to determine the receiving network interface of inbound packets. > > Unfortunately, at present this field is not preserved across a skb clone > > operation which can lead to garbage values if the cloned skb is sent back > > through the network stack. This patch corrects this problem by properly > > copying the 'iif' field in __skb_clone() and removing the 'iif' field > > assignment from skb_act_clone() since it is no longer needed. > > > > Also, while we are here, put the assignments in the same order as the > > offsets > > to reduce cacheline bounces. > > > > Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Dave, perhaps this one should pushed to Linus now as a bugfix? Probably we should, yes. Ok, that's what I'll do. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
