Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/10] [BRIDGE]: Unshare skb upon entry

From: Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:20:00 +0200

Herbert Xu wrote:
> [BRIDGE]: Unshare skb upon entry
> 
> Due to the special location of the bridging hook, it should never see a
> shared packet anyway (certainly not with any in-kernel code).  So it
> makes sense to unshare the skb there if necessary as that will greatly
> simplify the code below it (in particular, netfilter).

I guess we can remove the unsharing from br_netfilter.c now.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]>

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_netfilter.c b/net/bridge/br_netfilter.c
index 246bf23..da22f90 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_netfilter.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_netfilter.c
@@ -511,9 +511,6 @@ static unsigned int br_nf_pre_routing(unsigned int hook, struct sk_buff *skb,
 	struct iphdr *iph;
 	__u32 len = nf_bridge_encap_header_len(skb);
 
-	if ((skb = skb_share_check(skb, GFP_ATOMIC)) == NULL)
-		return NF_STOLEN;
-
 	if (unlikely(!pskb_may_pull(skb, len)))
 		goto out;