Re: race in skb_splice_bits?
From: Jarek Poplawski <hidden>
Date: 2008-05-28 20:01:50
From: Jarek Poplawski <hidden>
Date: 2008-05-28 20:01:50
Octavian Purdila wrote, On 05/28/2008 08:02 PM:
On Wednesday 28 May 2008, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:quoted
We queue data under the lock and clone appropriate skb (and then grab it multiple times), so even it will be dropped, its data will not freed, and thus we will be able to read it. Or you are talking about different skbs?You are right, I forgot about the clone.
Probably I miss something, but how does it help when tcp_collapse() uses __kfree_skb()? Regards, Jarek P.