From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 net-next] netlink: allow large data transfers from user-space Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 10:12:39 -0700 Message-ID: <1370279559.24311.160.camel@edumazet-glaptop> References: <1370277599-27072-1-git-send-email-pablo@netfilter.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, kaber@trash.net To: Pablo Neira Ayuso Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f49.google.com ([209.85.220.49]:33095 "EHLO mail-pa0-f49.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753288Ab3FCRMk (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jun 2013 13:12:40 -0400 Received: by mail-pa0-f49.google.com with SMTP id lj1so974649pab.22 for ; Mon, 03 Jun 2013 10:12:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1370277599-27072-1-git-send-email-pablo@netfilter.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 2013-06-03 at 18:39 +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > + if (is_vmalloc_addr(skb->head)) { > + vfree(skb->head); > + skb->data = NULL; > + } > You probably meant : skb->head = NULL; Now, cross our fingers we do not skb_orphan() these skb too early :)