netdev - Re: [PATCH net] tcp: Always cleanup skb before sending

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Date:   Wed, 01 Nov 2017 18:00:10 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Christoph Paasch <cpaasch@...le.com>
Cc:     Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] tcp: Always cleanup skb before sending

On Wed, 2017-11-01 at 17:10 -0700, Christoph Paasch wrote:

> Yes, that looks good to me. Thanks!
> 
> But we still need to clean up the skb in tcp_v4_send_reset and
> tcp_v4_send_ack, as the fields (e.g., tcp_skb_cb->seq) have been set when
> coming from tcp_v4_rcv.

You might be confused : ip_send_unicast_reply() does not send back the
incoming skb.

A fresh skb is allocated, then appended/sent.

And commit 24a2d43d8886f5a29c did the changes to provide to
__ip_options_echo() the proper IPCB header location.