Re: Fwd: [2.6] ethertap and af_inet.c assertion failures

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 05:19:59PM +0100, Tommy Christensen wrote:
> 
> Shouldn't there be a check for skb_shared as well? Or are the
> callers of netlink_unicast/broadcast supposed to avoid this.

Had anyone been using shared skb's here before they would've got into
trouble a long time ago with calls such as skb_orphan in the path.

Even if they managed to do that and not notice then the pskb_expand_head
call in netlink_trim would've likely caught it as well.

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