Re: Fwd: Possible bug in net/ipv4/route.c?

[Herbert Xu]

On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 03:34:58PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
> I see. We could :
> 
> Avoid this memset(skb->cb, 0, sizeof(skb->cb)) in fastpath.

Yeah I think this might work.  Although skb's are used in all
sorts of esoteric places (such as netlink which may not even be
related to networking) so I can't guarantee that every alloc_skb
caller does the right thing.

Thanks,
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