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Date: Thu,  3 Aug 2023 07:14:26 +0000
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To: "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, 
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com, 
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] net: vlan: update wrong comments

vlan_insert_tag() and friends do not allocate a new skb.
However they might allocate a new skb->head.
Update their comments to better describe their behavior.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
---
 include/linux/if_vlan.h | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/if_vlan.h b/include/linux/if_vlan.h
index 6ba71957851e22829ec9f18cd29bea2d92dfa583..3028af87716e291cafcb4d67d89bc810344c9554 100644
--- a/include/linux/if_vlan.h
+++ b/include/linux/if_vlan.h
@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ static inline int __vlan_insert_tag(struct sk_buff *skb,
  * @mac_len: MAC header length including outer vlan headers
  *
  * Inserts the VLAN tag into @skb as part of the payload at offset mac_len
- * Returns a VLAN tagged skb. If a new skb is created, @skb is freed.
+ * Returns a VLAN tagged skb. This might change skb->head.
  *
  * Following the skb_unshare() example, in case of error, the calling function
  * doesn't have to worry about freeing the original skb.
@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ static inline struct sk_buff *vlan_insert_inner_tag(struct sk_buff *skb,
  * @vlan_tci: VLAN TCI to insert
  *
  * Inserts the VLAN tag into @skb as part of the payload
- * Returns a VLAN tagged skb. If a new skb is created, @skb is freed.
+ * Returns a VLAN tagged skb. This might change skb->head.
  *
  * Following the skb_unshare() example, in case of error, the calling function
  * doesn't have to worry about freeing the original skb.
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ static inline struct sk_buff *vlan_insert_tag(struct sk_buff *skb,
  * @vlan_tci: VLAN TCI to insert
  *
  * Inserts the VLAN tag into @skb as part of the payload
- * Returns a VLAN tagged skb. If a new skb is created, @skb is freed.
+ * Returns a VLAN tagged skb. This might change skb->head.
  *
  * Following the skb_unshare() example, in case of error, the calling function
  * doesn't have to worry about freeing the original skb.
-- 
2.41.0.640.ga95def55d0-goog