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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:16:54 -0800 From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@...i.com>, Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] gro: Handle inline VLAN tags On Sat, 2012-11-17 at 00:00 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > I'm not sure what you mean by this. Is your point that the > copy-on-write is never needed? It is still possible for pskb_may_pull() > to fail. > A packet sniffer should have a copy of bad frames, even if dropped later in our stacks. GRO layer is not allowed to drop a frame, even if not 'correct'. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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