Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Jul 2010 21:22:45 +0800 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: Fwd: Possible bug in net/ipv4/route.c? |
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On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 02:59:14PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote: > > Why do we clear full 48 bytes skb->cb[] in skb_alloc(), if no protocol > stack should rely it being zero ?
Unless a protocol is allocating the skb itself, then the fact that skb_alloc clears skb->cb is no guarantee that the skb->cb will be zero.
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