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Date:	Wed, 2 Mar 2011 11:03:55 +0100
From:	Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
To:	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, fubar@...ibm.com,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com, nicolas.2p.debian@...il.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next-2.6] bonding: remove skb_share_check in
 handle_frame

Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 09:38:43PM CET, andy@...yhouse.net wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 10:29:07AM +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> Unapplicable, sorry (wrong branch :(). Here's corrected patch:
>> 
>> Subject: [PATCH net-next-2.6 v2] bonding: remove skb_share_check in handle_frame
>> 
>> No need to do share check here.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c |    3 ---
>>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>> index 584f97b..367ea60 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>> @@ -1498,9 +1498,6 @@ static struct sk_buff *bond_handle_frame(struct sk_buff *skb)
>>  	struct net_device *slave_dev;
>>  	struct net_device *bond_dev;
>>  
>> -	skb = skb_share_check(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
>> -	if (unlikely(!skb))
>> -		return NULL;
>>  	slave_dev = skb->dev;
>>  	bond_dev = ACCESS_ONCE(slave_dev->master);
>>  	if (unlikely(!bond_dev))
>> -- 
>> 1.7.3.4
>> 
>
>Why did you decide to get rid of it here rather than the 3 places in the
>bonding driver where it is currently needed?  I think this can cover
>those cases since bond_handle_frame will be called after the ptype_all
>handlers before any of the ptype handlers.

I have already a patch prepared which converts bond ptype handlers into
being called from bond_handle_frame. You are propably right that this
should probably stay here.

So please Dave, drop this patch for now. Thanks.
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