netdev - differences in skb allocation in fill_packet_ipv4 and fill_packet

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Date:	Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:08:12 +0300
From:	Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lgrijincu@...acom.com>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: differences in skb allocation in fill_packet_ipv4 and fill_packet_ipv6

The skb is allocated differently in fill_packet_ipv4 and fill_packet_ipv6 (net/core/pktgen.c).


in fill_packet_ipv4():
        datalen = (odev->hard_header_len + 16) & ~0xf;
        skb = alloc_skb(pkt_dev->cur_pkt_size + 64 + datalen +
                        pkt_dev->pkt_overhead, GFP_ATOMIC);


but in fill_packet_ipv6():
        skb = alloc_skb(pkt_dev->cur_pkt_size + 64 + 16 +
                        pkt_dev->pkt_overhead, GFP_ATOMIC);




hard_header_len was first added here in:
    7ac5459ec0f074022818af35c589b9e2b406d7c3
    [PKTGEN]: Respect hard_header_len of device.

A snip from the patch:
-	skb = alloc_skb(pkt_dev->cur_pkt_size + 64 + 16, GFP_ATOMIC);
+	datalen = (odev->hard_header_len + 16) & ~0xf;
+	skb = alloc_skb(pkt_dev->cur_pkt_size + 64 + datalen, GFP_ATOMIC);


This patch only modifies fill_packet_ipv4(). Did someone forget to update
fill_packet_ipv6() as well or was this an ipv4-specific change (and why
would it be so)?

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