Re: PROBLEM: System call 'sendmsg' of process ospfd (quagga)causes kernel oops

[Herbert Xu]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 02:56:00PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
> I am ok by this way, but we might hit another similar problem elsewhere.
> 
> (igmp.c ip6_output, ...)
> 
> We effectively want to remove LL_ALLOCATED_SPACE() usage and obfuscate
> code...

Here's another idea, provide a helper to do the skb allocation
and the skb_reserve in one go.  That way this ugliness would only
need to be done once.

Cheers,
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