Patrick McHardy wrote: > Matthias Andree wrote: > >> On Thu, 04 Nov 2004, Patrick McHardy wrote: >> >>> The data that is changed is only a copy, the actual packet is not >>> touched. >>> >> >> >> Why then does the application not see the packets as long as >> ip_conntrack_amanda is loaded and starts seeing them again as soon as >> "rmmod ip_conntrack_amanda" has completed? >> >> > > Your observation and your patch were correct, thanks. It is supposed > to be just a copy, I missed that it wasn't anymore. While your patch > works too, and is even faster with non-linear skbs, I don't like the > idea of using the skb as a scratch-area, so I sent this patch to Dave > instead. Patrick, what about this? this way we save a copy to a buffer for linear skbs. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso