From 5b057c6b1a25d57edf2b4d1e956e50936480a9ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Herbert Xu Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 02:06:41 -0700 Subject: [NET]: Avoid allocating skb in skb_pad First of all it is unnecessary to allocate a new skb in skb_pad since the existing one is not shared. More importantly, our hard_start_xmit interface does not allow a new skb to be allocated since that breaks requeueing. This patch uses pskb_expand_head to expand the existing skb and linearize it if needed. Actually, someone should sift through every instance of skb_pad on a non-linear skb as they do not fit the reasons why this was originally created. Incidentally, this fixes a minor bug when the skb is cloned (tcpdump, TCP, etc.). As it is skb_pad will simply write over a cloned skb. Because of the position of the write it is unlikely to cause problems but still it's best if we don't do it. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/wireless/ray_cs.c | 3 +-- drivers/net/wireless/wavelan_cs.c | 7 ++----- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless') diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ray_cs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ray_cs.c index 879eb427607..a915fe6c6aa 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ray_cs.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ray_cs.c @@ -924,8 +924,7 @@ static int ray_dev_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) if (length < ETH_ZLEN) { - skb = skb_padto(skb, ETH_ZLEN); - if (skb == NULL) + if (skb_padto(skb, ETH_ZLEN)) return 0; length = ETH_ZLEN; } diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/wavelan_cs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/wavelan_cs.c index f7724eb2fa7..561250f73fd 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/wavelan_cs.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/wavelan_cs.c @@ -3194,11 +3194,8 @@ wavelan_packet_xmit(struct sk_buff * skb, * and we don't have the Ethernet specific requirement of beeing * able to detect collisions, therefore in theory we don't really * need to pad. Jean II */ - if (skb->len < ETH_ZLEN) { - skb = skb_padto(skb, ETH_ZLEN); - if (skb == NULL) - return 0; - } + if (skb_padto(skb, ETH_ZLEN)) + return 0; wv_packet_write(dev, skb->data, skb->len); -- cgit v1.2.3