netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: sk_buff: memset(skb,0) after alloc in skb

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Date:	Tue, 10 Sep 2013 05:40:32 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Govindarajulu Varadarajan <govindarajulu90@...il.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: sk_buff: memset(skb,0) after alloc in
 skb_clone

On Tue, 2013-09-10 at 10:18 +0530, Govindarajulu Varadarajan wrote:
> The following patch memset the skb to 0 after alloc. We do this in
> __alloc_skb_head, __alloc_skb, build_skb. We are missing this in
> skb_clone.
> 
> The following call to __skb_clone in skb_clone does not copy all the
> members of sk_buff. If we donot clear the skb to 0, we will have some
> uninitialized members in new skb.

Which ones exactly ?

I would rather make sure all fields are properly copied.

Your patch is incomplete, because it doesn't handle the fast clone case.



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