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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-05-15 00:34:44 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-05-15 00:34:44 -0700
commit63fe46da9c380b3f2bbdf3765044649517cc717c (patch)
tree9478c1aca1d692b408955aea20c9cd9a37e589c0 /net/core/skbuff.c
parent99dd1a2b8347ac2ae802300b7862f6f7bcf17139 (diff)
parent066b2118976e6e7cc50eed39e2747c75343a23c4 (diff)
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Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965-rs.c drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.c
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/skbuff.c')
-rw-r--r--net/core/skbuff.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index 4fe605f..5c459f2 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -200,7 +200,9 @@ struct sk_buff *__alloc_skb(unsigned int size, gfp_t gfp_mask,
goto nodata;
/*
- * See comment in sk_buff definition, just before the 'tail' member
+ * Only clear those fields we need to clear, not those that we will
+ * actually initialise below. Hence, don't put any more fields after
+ * the tail pointer in struct sk_buff!
*/
memset(skb, 0, offsetof(struct sk_buff, tail));
skb->truesize = size + sizeof(struct sk_buff);
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