Ownership of sk_buff
From: rohan puri <hidden>
Date: 2011-11-24 04:08:28
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 5:33 AM, Vimal [off-list ref] wrote:
Hi all, When a protocol like TCP or UDP creates an sk_buff and passes it down to the layer 3 and layer 2 protocol functions, which module has ownership of the buffer as it gets passed down? Is it the responsibility of the caller, or the callee to free the sk_buff? Are there any exceptions? Thanks, -- Vimal _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
Hello Vimal, Refer http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/skbuff Regards, Rohan Puri -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/attachments/20111124/a86d67f1/attachment.html