Re: [PATCH v3] tcp: splice as many packets as possible at once

[Herbert Xu]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 07:54:18AM +0000, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> 
> Yes, but ip_append_data() (and skb_append_datato_frags() for
> NETIF_F_UFO only, so currently not a problem), uses this differently,
> and these pages in sk->sk_sndmsg_page could leak or be used after
> kfree. (I didn't track locking in these other places).

It'll be freed when the socket is freed so that should be fine.

Cheers,
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