The "cb must be in virgin state" rule is indeed news to me. But
maybe the rule has always been there, and nobody really noticed :-)
> this is one option. the other would be to clone the skb and pass the
> clone to the ip layer. the last option, and the one i prefer, would
> be to make the atm drivers not modify skb->cb (or reset it) when passing
> up the skb. the atm socket layer doesnt rely on it, and it would keep
> the 'extra' processing to a minimum.
I'm not sure this is the problem: as far as I remember, the ATM stack
doesn't assume that other layers leave skb->cb intact. In fact, it
shouldn't even touch an skb once it has been passed on.
BTW, I'm happy that ATM finally has a maintainer again. Thanks, Chas !
- Werner
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