This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    skbuff: add an api to orphan frags

to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     skbuff-add-an-api-to-orphan-frags.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From a353e0ce0fd42d8859260666d1e9b10f2abd4698 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 09:23:07 +0000
Subject: skbuff: add an api to orphan frags

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email protected]>

commit a353e0ce0fd42d8859260666d1e9b10f2abd4698 upstream.

Many places do
       if ((skb_shinfo(skb)->tx_flags & SKBTX_DEV_ZEROCOPY))
                skb_copy_ubufs(skb, gfp_mask);
to copy and invoke frag destructors if necessary.
Add an inline helper for this.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 include/linux/skbuff.h |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -1674,6 +1674,22 @@ static inline void skb_orphan(struct sk_
 }
 
 /**
+ *     skb_orphan_frags - orphan the frags contained in a buffer
+ *     @skb: buffer to orphan frags from
+ *     @gfp_mask: allocation mask for replacement pages
+ *
+ *     For each frag in the SKB which needs a destructor (i.e. has an
+ *     owner) create a copy of that frag and release the original
+ *     page by calling the destructor.
+ */
+static inline int skb_orphan_frags(struct sk_buff *skb, gfp_t gfp_mask)
+{
+       if (likely(!(skb_shinfo(skb)->tx_flags & SKBTX_DEV_ZEROCOPY)))
+               return 0;
+       return skb_copy_ubufs(skb, gfp_mask);
+}
+
+/**
  *     __skb_queue_purge - empty a list
  *     @list: list to empty
  *


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.4/skbuff-export-skb_copy_ubufs.patch
queue-3.4/skbuff-skb_segment-orphan-frags-before-copying.patch
queue-3.4/skbuff-add-an-api-to-orphan-frags.patch
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Reply via email to