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authorHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2006-06-23 02:06:41 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2006-06-23 02:06:41 -0700
commit5b057c6b1a25d57edf2b4d1e956e50936480a9ff (patch)
treee641febd6f562e0ed1198c160ff353ab513f0612 /drivers/net/yellowfin.c
parent5fa21d821f6972e70942f2c555ec29dde962bdb2 (diff)
[NET]: Avoid allocating skb in skb_pad
First of all it is unnecessary to allocate a new skb in skb_pad since the existing one is not shared. More importantly, our hard_start_xmit interface does not allow a new skb to be allocated since that breaks requeueing. This patch uses pskb_expand_head to expand the existing skb and linearize it if needed. Actually, someone should sift through every instance of skb_pad on a non-linear skb as they do not fit the reasons why this was originally created. Incidentally, this fixes a minor bug when the skb is cloned (tcpdump, TCP, etc.). As it is skb_pad will simply write over a cloned skb. Because of the position of the write it is unlikely to cause problems but still it's best if we don't do it. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/yellowfin.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/yellowfin.c12
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/yellowfin.c b/drivers/net/yellowfin.c
index fd0f43b7db5b..ecec8e5db786 100644
--- a/drivers/net/yellowfin.c
+++ b/drivers/net/yellowfin.c
@@ -862,13 +862,11 @@ static int yellowfin_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
/* Fix GX chipset errata. */
if (cacheline_end > 24 || cacheline_end == 0) {
len = skb->len + 32 - cacheline_end + 1;
- if (len != skb->len)
- skb = skb_padto(skb, len);
- }
- if (skb == NULL) {
- yp->tx_skbuff[entry] = NULL;
- netif_wake_queue(dev);
- return 0;
+ if (skb_padto(skb, len)) {
+ yp->tx_skbuff[entry] = NULL;
+ netif_wake_queue(dev);
+ return 0;
+ }
}
}
yp->tx_skbuff[entry] = skb;