[NET]: Avoid allocating skb in skb_pad

First of all it is unnecessary to allocate a new skb in skb_pad since
the existing one is not shared.  More importantly, our hard_start_xmit
interface does not allow a new skb to be allocated since that breaks
requeueing.

This patch uses pskb_expand_head to expand the existing skb and linearize
it if needed.  Actually, someone should sift through every instance of
skb_pad on a non-linear skb as they do not fit the reasons why this was
originally created.

Incidentally, this fixes a minor bug when the skb is cloned (tcpdump,
TCP, etc.).  As it is skb_pad will simply write over a cloned skb.  Because
of the position of the write it is unlikely to cause problems but still
it's best if we don't do it.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Herbert Xu
2006-06-23 02:06:41 -07:00
提交者 David S. Miller
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@@ -831,8 +831,7 @@ static int fjn_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
if (length < ETH_ZLEN)
{
skb = skb_padto(skb, ETH_ZLEN);
if (skb == NULL)
if (skb_padto(skb, ETH_ZLEN))
return 0;
length = ETH_ZLEN;
}