Re: [RFC PATCH] net: add dataref destructor to sk_buff

From: Gregory Haskins
Date: Tue Nov 10 2009 - 10:48:24 EST


Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 09:11:10AM -0500, Gregory Haskins wrote:
>>> You are comparing with skb destructors, not skb data destructors :) skb
>>> data destructor is Rusty's patch which he wanted to use for vringfd. I
>>> mean e.g. this:
>>> http://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2008/04/18/7
>> Ah, I wasn't aware. I believe Anthony Ligouri had pointed me at this
>> same patch earlier this year. However, more recently when I saw
>> skb->destructor() in mainline (seemingly from Rusty), I thought it had
>> been accepted and didn't investigate further.
>
> skb->destructor seems to be there as far back as 2.2.0
> http://lxr.linux.no/#linux-old+v2.2.0/include/linux/skbuff.h
>

Right, I meant recent activity around it for fixing it up related to
leaks, etc.

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