netdev - Re: Question about an assignment in handle

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Date:	Wed, 26 May 2010 09:13:07 +1000
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
Cc:	Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	davem@...emloft.net, kaber@...sh.net
Subject: Re: Question about an assignment in handle_ing()

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 09:13:36AM -0400, jamal wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 22:46 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> 
> > That's not very surprising as you're not checking whether the
> > skb is cloned in act_pedit.c:
> 
> I meant the test "if (skb_cloned(skb))" failed in such cases;-> So you
> couldnt reliably use it. 
> If it turns out it is unnecessary, what you describe is what i had in
> mind as well.

If it did happen like you said then it would be a serious bug
in our stack as everything else (including the TCP stack) relies
on this.

You can't just make up your own rules :)
 
> It is not the responsibility of the action to drop packets in a pipeline
> rather the responsibility is that of the caller (ref: rule #3 in
> Documentation/networking/tc-actions-env-rules.txt). What to do on a
> failure such as above is programmable by the action user/admin.

But how can the caller make that decision when you return exactly
the same value in the error case as the normal case?

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