netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] net-timestamp: Make the clone operation stand-alone from phy timestamping

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Date:	Wed, 03 Sep 2014 15:05:08 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, richardcochran@...il.com,
	davem@...emloft.net, willemb@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] net-timestamp: Make the clone operation stand-alone
 from phy timestamping

On Wed, 2014-09-03 at 14:07 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> 
> Normally, if one skb holds a reference to a socket, it should have
> skb->destructor set to a cleanup function.
> 
> Otherwise, we rely on callers following a convention, to release sk
> reference.
> 
> If you believe its needed, it should be dully documented.


BTW, skb_orphan() would BUG() on this case (skb->destrutor == NULL and
skb->sk != NULL)





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