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From: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
To: Yakov Lerner <iler.ml@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: attach additional value to skb
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:42:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071023054214.GI5708@rhun.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f36b08ee0710221303y5a846a27v1ebdc919db0f00ac@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 10:03:47PM +0200, Yakov Lerner wrote:

> I want to add my custom destructor to the skb, the function pointer
> to be called at skb destruction time. Will the following work: if I
> push address of my_destructor to the
> sk-buff->destructor field,  and then when my_destructor
> is called, I call the (saved)  old value of  sk-buff->destructor ?
> Will this work ?

It might, provided nothing else runs after you that will unilaterally
change the ->destructor field. I.e., it depends at which point in the
skb's life-time you set your hook.

Cheers,
Muli
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-23  5:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-22 20:03 attach additional value to skb Yakov Lerner
2007-10-22 21:18 ` Wenhua Zhao
2007-10-23  5:42 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda [this message]

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