From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Francois Romieu Subject: Re: [NET] Update documentation of skb_linearize Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 00:34:50 +0100 Message-ID: <20061110233450.GD9453@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: <20061110213043.GB9453@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <20061110133555.7400e555@freekitty> <20061110220355.GC9453@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <20061110.145346.125893910.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: shemminger@osdl.org, dale@farnsworth.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com ([213.41.134.224]:23271 "EHLO fr.zoreil.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946721AbWKJXgs (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Nov 2006 18:36:48 -0500 To: David Miller Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061110.145346.125893910.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org David Miller : [...] > Yes it is. > > If the non-linear SKB has data in pages, we copy that data from the > pages into the new linear skb->data area and release the paged data. Right. The documentation talks about the skb _data_ so there is no reason to imagine that the function could freed the skb on failure. I'll leave Stephen reformulate the documentation if he feels the need to. -- Ueimor