From: Joe Stringer
> Sent: 13 April 2016 19:10
> This is the IPv6 equivalent of commit 8282f27449bf ("inet: frag: Always
> orphan skbs inside ip_defrag()").
>
> Prior to commit 029f7f3b8701 ("netfilter: ipv6: nf_defrag: avoid/free
> clone operations"), ipv6 fragments sent to nf_ct_frag6_gather() would be
> cloned (implicitly orphaning) prior to queueing for reassembly. As such,
> when the IPv6 message is eventually reassembled, the skb->sk for all
> fragments would be NULL. After that commit was introduced, rather than
> cloning, the original skbs were queued directly without orphaning. The
> end result is that all frags except for the first and last may have a
> socket attached.
I'd have thought that the queued fragments would still want to be
resource-counted against the socket (I think that is what skb->sk is for).
So don't really want to orphan skb before queuing them, instead transfer
the entire resource count to the head skb when they are merged.
Although I can't imagine why IPv6 reassembly is happening on skb
associated with a socket.
David
