Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1 - git-lblnet.patch and networking horkage

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On Thu, 26 Dec 2007, Paul Moore wrote:

> As James said I'm away right now and computer access is limited.  
> However, I'm stuck in the airport right now and spent some time looking 
> at the code ... Based on what has been found so far I wonder if the 
> problem isn't a race but a problem of skb->iif never being initialized 
> correctly?  To my untrained eye it looks like __netdev_alloc_skb() 
> should be setting skb->iif (like it does for skb->dev) but it currently 
> doesn't.

->iif will be zeroed during skb allocation, then set during 
netif_receive_skb().


- James
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