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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2005-06-28 15:25:31 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2005-06-28 15:25:31 -0700
commit689be43945e9ca7dd704522e55af1b8a73a994d3 (patch)
tree6dcc7a5675a9a2b98c36ee54f2ba4386f84efe83 /drivers/net/wan/hdlc_cisco.c
parent[IPV4]: Broken memory allocation in fib_trie (diff)
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[NET]: Remove gratuitous use of skb->tail in network drivers.
Many drivers use skb->tail unnecessarily. In these situations, the code roughly looks like: dev = dev_alloc_skb(...); [optional] skb_reserve(skb, ...); ... skb->tail ... But even if the skb_reserve() happens, skb->data equals skb->tail. So it doesn't make any sense to use anything other than skb->data in these cases. Another case was the s2io.c driver directly mucking with the skb->data and skb->tail pointers. It really just wanted to do an skb_reserve(), so that's what the code was changed to do instead. Another reason I'm making this change as it allows some SKB cleanups I have planned simpler to merge. In those cleanups, skb->head, skb->tail, and skb->end pointers are removed, and replaced with skb->head_room and skb->tail_room integers. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wan/hdlc_cisco.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wan/hdlc_cisco.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wan/hdlc_cisco.c b/drivers/net/wan/hdlc_cisco.c
index c1b6896d7007..87496843681a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wan/hdlc_cisco.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wan/hdlc_cisco.c
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ static void cisco_keepalive_send(struct net_device *dev, u32 type,
}
skb_reserve(skb, 4);
cisco_hard_header(skb, dev, CISCO_KEEPALIVE, NULL, NULL, 0);
- data = (cisco_packet*)skb->tail;
+ data = (cisco_packet*)skb->data;
data->type = htonl(type);
data->par1 = htonl(par1);