Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [ATM] who 'owns' the skb created by drivers/atm? | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Date | 20 Feb 2003 22:22:50 -0800 |
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On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 17:42, James Morris wrote: > skb->cb is owned by whatever layer is currently processing the skb.
Furthermore, once you netif_rx() an SKB it is no longer yours. It is owned by the networking stack.
If the ATM layer wants to do fancy things and still pass the SKB to netif_rx(), _it_ should clone the SKB and give that clone to the ATM layer directly.
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