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net: Audit drivers to identify those needing IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING cleared

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After the last patch, We are left in a state in which only drivers calling
ether_setup have IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING set (we assume that drivers touching real
hardware call ether_setup for their net_devices and don't hold any state in
their skbs.  There are a handful of drivers that violate this assumption of
course, and need to be fixed up.  This patch identifies those drivers, and marks
them as not being able to support the safe transmission of skbs by clearning the
IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING flag in priv_flags

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
CC: Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de>
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
CC: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
CC: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
CC: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
CC: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
CC: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
CC: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Neil Horman
2011-07-26 06:05:38 +00:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent d887331506
commit 550fd08c2c
14 changed files with 22 additions and 8 deletions
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drivers/net/macvlan.c
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@@ -572,7 +572,7 @@ void macvlan_common_setup(struct net_device *dev)
{
ether_setup(dev);
dev->priv_flags &= ~IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE;
dev->priv_flags &= ~(IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE | IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING);
dev->netdev_ops = &macvlan_netdev_ops;
dev->destructor = free_netdev;
dev->header_ops = &macvlan_hard_header_ops,