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[PATCH 04/11] batman-adv: bcast: avoid skb-copy for (re)queued broadcasts

From: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Date: 2021-06-08 15:35:32
Also in: batman
Subsystem: batman advanced, the rest · Maintainers: Marek Lindner, Simon Wunderlich, Antonio Quartulli, Sven Eckelmann, Linus Torvalds

From: Linus Lüssing <redacted>

Broadcast packets send via batadv_send_outstanding_bcast_packet() were
originally copied in batadv_forw_bcast_packet_to_list() before being
queued. And after that only the ethernet header will be pushed through
batadv_send_broadcast_skb()->batadv_send_skb_packet() which works safely
on skb clones as it uses batadv_skb_head_push()->skb_cow_head().

Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
---
 net/batman-adv/send.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/send.c b/net/batman-adv/send.c
index 07b0ba265472..0b9dd29d3b6a 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/send.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/send.c
@@ -1072,7 +1072,7 @@ static void batadv_send_outstanding_bcast_packet(struct work_struct *work)
 	}
 
 	/* send a copy of the saved skb */
-	skb1 = skb_copy(forw_packet->skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
+	skb1 = skb_clone(forw_packet->skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!skb1)
 		goto out;
 
-- 
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