On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Chris Wright wrote: > * Chris Wright (chrisat_private) wrote: > > > > Finally, changed the skb_ops->alloc/clone docs to reflect that they > > may be called from an interrupt. > Well, much of the networking code can run under interrupt -- I'm not sure it's something we need to document here. > hmm, considering the return type for skb_ops->clone is void, i think it is > safe to say we are explicitly not allowing memory allocation during clone. > (which makes sense to me). It's possible that someone might want to do a new allocation here. > should we say _anything_ here? should we > consider supporting a new blob allocation in clone (and return an int)? > We should probably cater for allocation failures for both clone() and copy(). I'll start working on a patch. - James -- James Morris <jmorrisat_private> _______________________________________________ linux-security-module mailing list linux-security-moduleat_private http://mail.wirex.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-security-module
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