On Nov 6, 2012, at 6:50 PM, Jesse Gross <[email protected]> wrote:
> When the IPV4_TUNNEL action is executed, a pointer in the skb is
> directly assigned the address of the action, which is protected by
> RCU.  If a TUN_ID action is later executed it will write into the
> action, which is not allowed by RCU.  This avoids the problem by
> making a copy of the data and writing into the copy.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <[email protected]>


Makes sense.

Acked-by: Kyle Mestery <[email protected]>
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