From: "Paul Marks" <paul@pmarks.net>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: When should kfree_skb be used?
Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 21:49:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8e5b27790805082149y6d9f604ds7feefe2804f3823c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Hi, I'm trying to make sense of the ipip6_rcv function here:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=net/ipv6/sit.c;hb=HEAD#l564
Specifically, why is kfree_skb called when pskb_may_pull(...) returns
true, but not called when it returns false? Is there something in the
code path which increments the skb's reference count that I'm not
noticing?
next reply other threads:[~2008-05-09 4:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-09 4:49 Paul Marks [this message]
2008-05-09 6:34 ` When should kfree_skb be used? Paul Marks
2008-05-09 6:41 ` David Miller
2008-05-09 6:55 ` Paul Marks
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