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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: more accurate network taps in transmit
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Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 20:21:12 +0200
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On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 14:16 -0400, David Miller wrote:

> Are you really sure that all the network tap implementations can
> handle software GSO segmented skbs using skb->next linkage?
> 
> Because that is what they can potentially see after this change.

I dont think so, because skb->next is NULL at the points I call the
network tap.

Or did I miss something ?