netdev - Re: [PATCH net] netpoll: fix rx_hook() interface by passing the skb

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Date:	Tue, 22 Oct 2013 12:11:27 +0200
From:	Antonio Quartulli <antonio@...hcoding.com>
To:	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] netpoll: fix rx_hook() interface by passing the skb

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 10:09:00AM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> > Subject: [PATCH net] netpoll: fix rx_hook() interface by passing the skb
> > 
> > Right now skb->data is passed to rx_hook() even if the skb
> > has not been linearised and without giving rx_hook() a way
> > to linearise it.
> > 
> > Change the rx_hook() interface and make it accept the skb
> > as argument. In this way users implementing rx_hook() can
> > perform all the needed operations to properly (and safely)
> > access the skb data.
> ...
> > -	void (*rx_hook)(struct netpoll *, int, char *, int);
> > +	void (*rx_hook)(struct netpoll *np, struct sk_buff *skb, int offset);
> 
> You can't do that change without changing the way that hooks are registered
> so that any existing modules will fail to register their hooks.

There is no hook registration in the kernel tree. All the users are outside.


-- 
Antonio Quartulli

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