From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: skb_checksum_help Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:38:07 -0800 Message-ID: <20050123203807.5e101123.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20050124005348.GL23931@postel.suug.ch> <20050123202715.281ac87c.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, tgraf@suug.ch, kaber@trash.net, david@davidcoulson.net, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20050123202715.281ac87c.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:27:15 -0800 "David S. Miller" wrote: > If some code underruns > skb->data somehow while unfragging/refragging, that's a sure > fire way to corrupt things such as the skb->ip_summed field. Ignore this, I'm wrong. We allocate sk_buff and skb->data seperately, so this can't happen. I'm really showing my age, because many moons ago we did allocate them together :-)