netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] NET: Clone the sk_buff 'iif' field in __skb

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Date:	Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:01:47 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	paul.moore@...com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] NET: Clone the sk_buff 'iif' field in
 __skb_clone()

From: Paul Moore <paul.moore@...com>
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:47:42 -0500

> Both NetLabel and SELinux (other LSMs may grow to use it as well) rely on the
> 'iif' field to determine the receiving network interface of inbound packets.
> Unfortunately, at present this field is not preserved across a skb clone
> operation which can lead to garbage values if the cloned skb is sent back
> through the network stack.  This patch corrects this problem by properly
> copying the 'iif' field in __skb_clone() and removing the 'iif' field
> assignment from skb_act_clone() since it is no longer needed.
> 
> Also, while we are here, put the assignments in the same order as the offsets
> to reduce cacheline bounces.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@...com>

Applied to net-2.6 and I think I'll toss this into -stable as well.

Thanks.
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