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Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/skbuff.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/skbuff.c | 31 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c index e278d6b721bc..02ebb7133312 100644 --- a/net/core/skbuff.c +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c @@ -278,13 +278,14 @@ nodata: EXPORT_SYMBOL(__alloc_skb); /** - * build_skb - build a network buffer + * __build_skb - build a network buffer * @data: data buffer provided by caller - * @frag_size: size of fragment, or 0 if head was kmalloced + * @frag_size: size of data, or 0 if head was kmalloced * * Allocate a new &sk_buff. Caller provides space holding head and * skb_shared_info. @data must have been allocated by kmalloc() only if - * @frag_size is 0, otherwise data should come from the page allocator. + * @frag_size is 0, otherwise data should come from the page allocator + * or vmalloc() * The return is the new skb buffer. * On a failure the return is %NULL, and @data is not freed. * Notes : @@ -295,7 +296,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__alloc_skb); * before giving packet to stack. * RX rings only contains data buffers, not full skbs. */ -struct sk_buff *build_skb(void *data, unsigned int frag_size) +struct sk_buff *__build_skb(void *data, unsigned int frag_size) { struct skb_shared_info *shinfo; struct sk_buff *skb; @@ -309,11 +310,6 @@ struct sk_buff *build_skb(void *data, unsigned int frag_size) memset(skb, 0, offsetof(struct sk_buff, tail)); skb->truesize = SKB_TRUESIZE(size); - if (frag_size) { - skb->head_frag = 1; - if (virt_to_head_page(data)->pfmemalloc) - skb->pfmemalloc = 1; - } atomic_set(&skb->users, 1); skb->head = data; skb->data = data; @@ -330,6 +326,23 @@ struct sk_buff *build_skb(void *data, unsigned int frag_size) return skb; } + +/* build_skb() is wrapper over __build_skb(), that specifically + * takes care of skb->head and skb->pfmemalloc + * This means that if @frag_size is not zero, then @data must be backed + * by a page fragment, not kmalloc() or vmalloc() + */ +struct sk_buff *build_skb(void *data, unsigned int frag_size) +{ + struct sk_buff *skb = __build_skb(data, frag_size); + + if (skb && frag_size) { + skb->head_frag = 1; + if (virt_to_head_page(data)->pfmemalloc) + skb->pfmemalloc = 1; + } + return skb; +} EXPORT_SYMBOL(build_skb); struct netdev_alloc_cache { |