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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-01-06 17:37:45 -0500
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-01-06 17:37:45 -0500
commit56a4342dfe3145cd66f766adccb28fd9b571606d (patch)
treed1593764488ff8cbb0b83cb9ae35fd968bf81760 /include/linux/skbuff.h
parent805c1f4aedaba1bc8d839e7c27b128083dd5c2f0 (diff)
parentfe0d692bbc645786bce1a98439e548ae619269f5 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts: drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_sriov_pf.c net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c ipv6 tunnel statistic bug fixes conflicting with consolidation into generic sw per-cpu net stats. qlogic conflict between queue counting bug fix and the addition of multiple MAC address support. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/skbuff.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/skbuff.h9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index c5cd016f5120..88d4f2ebbec6 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -1715,6 +1715,11 @@ static inline void skb_set_mac_header(struct sk_buff *skb, const int offset)
skb->mac_header += offset;
}
+static inline void skb_pop_mac_header(struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+ skb->mac_header = skb->network_header;
+}
+
static inline void skb_probe_transport_header(struct sk_buff *skb,
const int offset_hint)
{
@@ -2621,6 +2626,10 @@ static inline void sw_tx_timestamp(struct sk_buff *skb)
* Ethernet MAC Drivers should call this function in their hard_xmit()
* function immediately before giving the sk_buff to the MAC hardware.
*
+ * Specifically, one should make absolutely sure that this function is
+ * called before TX completion of this packet can trigger. Otherwise
+ * the packet could potentially already be freed.
+ *
* @skb: A socket buffer.
*/
static inline void skb_tx_timestamp(struct sk_buff *skb)