Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:02:38 +0800 | | From | Herbert Xu <> | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] net: add dataref destructor to sk_buff |
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On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 09:22:57AM -0500, Gregory Haskins wrote: > > But really, this is somewhat orthogonal to the original problem, so let > me see if we can bring it back on topic. Michael stated that this patch > in question may be problematic because there are places in the stack > that can get_page() without also maintaining a reference to the shinfo > object. Evgeniy seems to say the opposite. I am not sure who is right, > or if I misunderstood one or both of them. Any thoughts?
There are loads of places where this can happen. Start with pskb_expand_head.
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