From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Change in alloc_skb() behavior in 3.2+ kernels?
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 20:22:06 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jqoe5d$fs3$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20120606.120247.1618312724057709285.davem@davemloft.net
On 2012-06-06, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 18:59:19 +0000 (UTC)
>
>> At the time it was written (probably 10+ years ago) it was relying on
>> the documented API for alloc_skb() that stated alloc_skb() either
>> returned an sk_buff of the requested size or it failed.
>
> It was never a formal API that we would only allocate 'size'
> amount of tailroom.
Well, somebody forgot to tell whoever wrote the man page for
alloc_skb(). :)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-06 20:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-06 18:32 Change in alloc_skb() behavior in 3.2+ kernels? Grant Edwards
2012-06-06 18:42 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-06 18:59 ` Grant Edwards
2012-06-06 19:02 ` David Miller
2012-06-06 20:22 ` Grant Edwards [this message]
2012-06-07 1:23 ` [PATCH net-next] net: Update kernel-doc for __alloc_skb() Ben Hutchings
2012-06-07 20:19 ` David Miller
2012-06-07 13:23 ` Change in alloc_skb() behavior in 3.2+ kernels? Grant Edwards
2012-06-07 14:01 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-07 14:16 ` Grant Edwards
2012-06-07 14:25 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-06 18:51 ` David Miller
2012-06-06 19:01 ` Grant Edwards
2012-06-06 20:17 ` David Miller
2012-06-06 20:24 ` Grant Edwards
2012-06-06 20:31 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-06 20:35 ` Grant Edwards
2012-06-06 19:42 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-06 20:26 ` Grant Edwards
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