Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 21 Feb 2003 12:42:26 +1100 (EST) | From | James Morris <> | Subject | Re: [ATM] who 'owns' the skb created by drivers/atm? |
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On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, chas williams wrote:
> its my understanding is that you can't use skb->cb unless you created > the skb. well atm created the skb and filled in ->cb. it seems ip > doesn't know its sharing this skb with the atm layer and doesnt clone > the skb in ip_rcv(). there seems to be an implicit understanding that > skb's created by ethernet drivers are 'owned' by the ip layer and shouldnt > touch skb->cb. >
skb->cb is owned by whatever layer is currently processing the skb.
- James -- James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>
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