netdev - Re: [RFC] about "net: orphan frags on receive" insanity

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Message-ID: <1372273764.3301.200.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
Date:	Wed, 26 Jun 2013 12:09:24 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] about "net: orphan frags on receive" insanity

On Wed, 2013-06-26 at 21:56 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

> Well we don't want to duplicate the whole RX path
> to special-case that, right?

Whats wrong using a helper ?

I_Should_cleanup_things(skb)
{
	... // cleanup for these special users trying to reenter stack

	netif_rx(skb);
}

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