netlink callback and socket buffer.

[Giacomo <delleceste@gmail.com>]

Good evening to everybody.

In recent kernels (>=2.6.24) netlink_kernel_create() callback function
has the following signature:


(void *) function(struct sk_buff* skb);

while before it was

(void  *) function(struct sock *skctrl, int len)

In the latter, i used to call skb_dequeue, obtain the skb and then,
once data was extracted, I used
to kfree_skb(skb); where skb is a sk_buff* obtained by skb_dequeue();

Now (with the (void *) function(struct sk_buff* skb)  callback) I get
data from skb but DO NOT HAVE
TO kfree_skb() it...

Is it true?  Is it automatically freed by the kernel once the callback returns?

Thanks in advance.

Giacomo S.


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