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On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 02:46, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
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> So it has to be something else.

What mechanism prevents the clone from happening between
the skb_clone() and skb_split() calls in tcp_fragment?

Maybe there's a path that doesn't take a lock...