Thread (3 messages) flat view 3 messages, 3 authors, 2015-03-10
STALE4185d

[PATCH] net: add comment for sock_efree() usage

From: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Date: 2015-03-10 18:04:03
Subsystem: networking [general], networking [sockets], the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Kuniyuki Iwashima, Willem de Bruijn, Linus Torvalds

Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
---
 net/core/sock.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c
index 93c8b20..78e89eb 100644
--- a/net/core/sock.c
+++ b/net/core/sock.c
@@ -1655,6 +1655,10 @@ void sock_rfree(struct sk_buff *skb)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(sock_rfree);
 
+/*
+ * Buffer destructor for skbs that are not used directly in read or write
+ * path, e.g. for error handler skbs. Automatically called from kfree_skb.
+ */
 void sock_efree(struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
 	sock_put(skb->sk);
-- 
2.1.4
Keyboard shortcuts
hback out one level
jnext message in thread
kprevious message in thread
ldrill in
Escclose help / fold thread tree
?toggle this help