Re: RFC: pskb_expand_head instead of skb_copy in skb_checksum_help

[James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, David S. Miller wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 21:05:32 +1000
> Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > The idea is simple.  None of the callers of skb_checksum are passing it
> > skb's which are shared.  They may be cloned however.  But the application
> > checksum is always in the skb header so there is no need to linearise it.
> 
> What about looping back of multicast packets via netif_rx(),
> is that handled correctly too?

They are clones.  I can easily regression test it if needed.


- James
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James Morris
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