Re: TCP bug?

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
27 Oct 1998 23:00:38 +0100


In article <E0zYBw8-0006Xy-00@danube.inka.de>,
Olaf Titz <olaf@bigred.inka.de> writes:
>> skb_unshare is a copy on write for multiple users. So 99.99% of the time it
>> actually just returns skb.

> OK. Because it can happen that I need to copy the skb for another
> reason (too little space for additional headers) I can just do
> something like

> if (skb_cloned(skb) || toosmall(skb)) {
> skn = skb_copy(skb, GFP_KERNEL);
> /* etc */
> }

skb_cow does exactly what you want:
struct sk_buff *skb_cow(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int headroom);

-Andi

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