netdev - Re: pppoe: Unshare skb before anything else

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Date:	Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:09:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jchapman@...alix.com
Cc:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pppoe: Unshare skb before anything else

From: James Chapman <jchapman@...alix.com>
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:08:59 +0100

> Herbert Xu wrote:
> > Hi Dave:
> > 
> > I noticed that my last patch to move the unshare in pppoe missed
> > the other spot which did the same thing:
> > 
> > pppoe: Unshare skb before anything else
> > 
> > We need to unshare the skb first as otherwise pskb_may_pull may
> > write to a shared skb which could be bad.
> 
> The same problem exists in the pppol2tp driver. Patch to follow. I'm 
> also fixing the copy-to-iovec issue.

I have the iovec patch, but I do not see the unshare one.
Did you post it?  Please resend if you have since I
don't have a copy.

Thanks.
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