netdev - Re: [0/10] Remove sk_buff ** from netfilter API

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Message-ID: <471307DF.4090302@trash.net>
Date:	Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:25:35 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, hadi@...erus.ca,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru
Subject: Re: [0/10] Remove sk_buff ** from netfilter API

Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 05:38:28PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>> >From a quick look it seems at least IPv4 and IPv6 don't need to
>> change the skb anywhere else. It seems to be necessary for
>> bridging though to unshare the skb. OTOH br_netfilter.c already
>> unshares the skb for IPv4 and IPv6, so we could simply do this
>> unconditionally before calling the hooks.
> 
> Thanks.  I got bored and finally did the plunge :)
> 
> I've booted it here and it seems to work.


Thanks Herbert :) I'll have a closer look and give it some testing
myself.

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