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Commit 5b057c6b authored by Herbert Xu's avatar Herbert Xu Committed by David S. Miller
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[NET]: Avoid allocating skb in skb_pad



First of all it is unnecessary to allocate a new skb in skb_pad since
the existing one is not shared.  More importantly, our hard_start_xmit
interface does not allow a new skb to be allocated since that breaks
requeueing.

This patch uses pskb_expand_head to expand the existing skb and linearize
it if needed.  Actually, someone should sift through every instance of
skb_pad on a non-linear skb as they do not fit the reasons why this was
originally created.

Incidentally, this fixes a minor bug when the skb is cloned (tcpdump,
TCP, etc.).  As it is skb_pad will simply write over a cloned skb.  Because
of the position of the write it is unlikely to cause problems but still
it's best if we don't do it.

Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 5fa21d82
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@@ -1031,8 +1031,7 @@ static int mc32_send_packet(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
		return 1;
	}

	skb = skb_padto(skb, ETH_ZLEN);
	if (skb == NULL) {
	if (skb_padto(skb, ETH_ZLEN)) {
		netif_wake_queue(dev);
		return 0;
	}
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@@ -1070,8 +1070,7 @@ static int i596_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
				skb->len, (unsigned int)skb->data));

	if (skb->len < ETH_ZLEN) {
		skb = skb_padto(skb, ETH_ZLEN);
		if (skb == NULL)
		if (skb_padto(skb, ETH_ZLEN))
			return 0;
		length = ETH_ZLEN;
	}
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@@ -573,8 +573,7 @@ static int lance_start_xmit (struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
	
	if (len < ETH_ZLEN) {
		len = ETH_ZLEN;
		skb = skb_padto(skb, ETH_ZLEN);
		if (skb == NULL)
		if (skb_padto(skb, ETH_ZLEN))
			return 0;
	}

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@@ -607,8 +607,7 @@ static int ariadne_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
    /* FIXME: is the 79C960 new enough to do its own padding right ? */
    if (skb->len < ETH_ZLEN)
    {
    	skb = skb_padto(skb, ETH_ZLEN);
    	if (skb == NULL)
    	if (skb_padto(skb, ETH_ZLEN))
    	    return 0;
    	len = ETH_ZLEN;
    }
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@@ -700,8 +700,7 @@ ether1_sendpacket (struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
	}

	if (skb->len < ETH_ZLEN) {
		skb = skb_padto(skb, ETH_ZLEN);
		if (skb == NULL)
		if (skb_padto(skb, ETH_ZLEN))
			goto out;
	}

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