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Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 20:22:06 +0000 (UTC)
From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@...il.com>
To: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Change in alloc_skb() behavior in 3.2+ kernels?
On 2012-06-06, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@...il.com>
> Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 18:59:19 +0000 (UTC)
>
>> At the time it was written (probably 10+ years ago) it was relying on
>> the documented API for alloc_skb() that stated alloc_skb() either
>> returned an sk_buff of the requested size or it failed.
>
> It was never a formal API that we would only allocate 'size'
> amount of tailroom.
Well, somebody forgot to tell whoever wrote the man page for
alloc_skb(). :)
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