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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2012-09-18 20:44:49 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-09-19 15:32:42 -0400
commitb40863c667c16b7a73d4f034a8eab67029b5b15a (patch)
treeeb69adf4283657af39e74c9a9fa3928603b780bb /net/core/dst.c
parentadccff34de1ef81564b7e6c436f762e7a1caf807 (diff)
net: more accurate network taps in transmit path
dev_queue_xmit_nit() should be called right before ndo_start_xmit() calls or we might give wrong packet contents to taps users : Packet checksum can be changed, or packet can be linearized or segmented, and segments partially sent for the later case. Also a memory allocation can fail and packet never really hit the driver entry point. Reported-by: Jamie Gloudon <jamie.gloudon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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