netdev - Re: [PATCH 6/10] [BRIDGE]: Unshare skb upon entry

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Date:	Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:20:00 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, hadi@...erus.ca,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/10] [BRIDGE]: Unshare skb upon entry

Herbert Xu wrote:
> [BRIDGE]: Unshare skb upon entry
> 
> Due to the special location of the bridging hook, it should never see a
> shared packet anyway (certainly not with any in-kernel code).  So it
> makes sense to unshare the skb there if necessary as that will greatly
> simplify the code below it (in particular, netfilter).


I guess we can remove the unsharing from br_netfilter.c now.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>



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