From: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverd...@nokia.com> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 15:01:11 +0200
> It's not allowed to assign data pointer of skbuff directly, this makes no > sense > if the assigned pointer is the very same as already existing one, or it brakes > all the pointer arithmetics in all other cases. We cannot do better as just > compare them and report BUG() in case of mismatch. > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverd...@nokia.com> BUG takes the entire machine out, which is worse than corrupting the skb->data If you really want to assert this condition, do it in a way that doesn't kill the entire machine. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
