Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] 6lowpan: Make a copy of skb's delivered to 6lowpan

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 22:39 -0400, Alan Ott wrote:
> Since lowpan_process_data() modifies the skb (by calling skb_pull()), we
> need our own copy so that it doesn't affect the data received by other
> protcols (in this case, af_ieee802154).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alan Ott <alan@signal11.us>
> ---
>  net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c |    9 ++++++++-
>  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c
> index 6a09522..ce33b02 100644
> --- a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c
> +++ b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c
> @@ -1133,6 +1133,8 @@ static int lowpan_validate(struct nlattr *tb[], struct nlattr *data[])
>  static int lowpan_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
>  	struct packet_type *pt, struct net_device *orig_dev)
>  {
> +	struct sk_buff *local_skb;
> +
>  	if (!netif_running(dev))
>  		goto drop;
>  
> @@ -1144,7 +1146,12 @@ static int lowpan_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
>  	case LOWPAN_DISPATCH_IPHC:	/* ipv6 datagram */
>  	case LOWPAN_DISPATCH_FRAG1:	/* first fragment header */
>  	case LOWPAN_DISPATCH_FRAGN:	/* next fragments headers */
> -		lowpan_process_data(skb);
> +		local_skb = skb_copy(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
> +		if (!local_skb)
> +			goto drop;
> +		lowpan_process_data(local_skb);
> +
> +		kfree_skb(skb);
>  		break;
>  	default:
>  		break;

Its not clear to me why skb_copy() is needed here.

>From patch description, I would say skb_clone() would be enough (and
faster) ?