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Message-Id: <20130731.164430.2259553453745469164.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 31 Jul 2013 16:44:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: skb_orphan() changes

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 15:44:51 -0700

> On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 15:24 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> 
>> Applied, but personally I would have considered adding an
>> else clause checking BUG_ON(skb->sk), or are you not so
>> confident in your assertion? :-)
> 
> I considered this but this was adding a significant overhead, as this
> is an inline function.
> 
> What about doing that for a limited time, say until 3.12 is released ?

That sounds like a great idea.
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