From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: antonio@meshcoding.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, David.Laight@ACULAB.COM
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 net] netpoll: fix rx_hook() interface by passing the skb
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 19:27:22 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131025.192722.2209080132367514630.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1382564190-334-1-git-send-email-antonio@meshcoding.com>
From: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 23:36:30 +0200
> Right now skb->data is passed to rx_hook() even if the skb
> has not been linearised and without giving rx_hook() a way
> to linearise it.
>
> Change the rx_hook() interface and make it accept the skb
> and the offset to the UDP payload as arguments. rx_hook() is
> also renamed to rx_skb_hook() to ensure that out of the tree
> users notice the API change.
>
> In this way any rx_skb_hook() implementation can perform all
> the needed operations to properly (and safely) access the
> skb data.
>
> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Applied.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-25 23:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-21 21:31 [PATCH net] netpoll: linearize skb before accessing its data Antonio Quartulli
2013-10-21 22:23 ` David Miller
2013-10-22 6:06 ` Antonio Quartulli
2013-10-22 6:25 ` David Miller
2013-10-22 6:37 ` Antonio Quartulli
2013-10-22 6:50 ` David Miller
2013-10-22 8:48 ` [PATCH net] netpoll: fix rx_hook() interface by passing the skb Antonio Quartulli
2013-10-22 9:09 ` David Laight
2013-10-22 10:11 ` Antonio Quartulli
2013-10-22 12:46 ` David Laight
2013-10-22 17:13 ` Antonio Quartulli
2013-10-22 19:40 ` David Miller
2013-10-23 8:33 ` David Laight
2013-10-23 10:28 ` Antonio Quartulli
2013-10-23 11:18 ` David Laight
2013-10-23 12:44 ` Antonio Quartulli
2013-10-23 20:16 ` David Miller
2013-10-23 21:36 ` [PATCHv2 " Antonio Quartulli
2013-10-24 8:43 ` David Laight
2013-10-24 12:01 ` Antonio Quartulli
2013-10-24 17:53 ` David Miller
2013-10-25 23:27 ` David Miller [this message]
2013-10-21 22:25 ` [PATCH net] netpoll: linearize skb before accessing its data Eric Dumazet
2013-10-21 22:33 ` David Miller
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