netdev - Re: [PATCH] smsc95xx: Use skb_cow to deal with cloned skbs

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Date:   Tue, 18 Apr 2017 10:23:32 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     James Hughes <james.hughes@...pberrypi.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@...well.net>,
        Microchip Linux Driver Support <UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] smsc95xx: Use skb_cow to deal with cloned skbs

On Tue, 2017-04-18 at 10:10 -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:

> BTW, this pattern of using skb_headroom() ... skb_copy_expand() seems to
> be recurring in pretty much all USB network drivers that have a tx_fixup
> callback set. The problem is that each driver needs its own
> headroom/tailroom so the fix is not as simple as putting the
> skb_cow_head() before the call to the drivers' tx_fixup...
> 
> I wonder if a coccinelle patch would be able to do that for us?

Not sure about coccinelle, because some drivers also need some tailroom.