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-rw-r--r--include/linux/skbuff.h1
-rw-r--r--net/core/skbuff.c26
2 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index 32810f2..a52a6fb 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -902,6 +902,7 @@ void kfree_skb(struct sk_buff *skb);
void kfree_skb_list(struct sk_buff *segs);
void skb_tx_error(struct sk_buff *skb);
void consume_skb(struct sk_buff *skb);
+void skb_recycle(struct sk_buff *skb);
void __kfree_skb(struct sk_buff *skb);
extern struct kmem_cache *skbuff_head_cache;
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index fe008f1..ab10380 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -825,6 +825,32 @@ void napi_consume_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, int budget)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(napi_consume_skb);
+/**
+ * skb_recycle - clean up an skb for reuse
+ * @skb: buffer
+ *
+ * Recycles the skb to be reused as a receive buffer. This
+ * function does any necessary reference count dropping, and
+ * cleans up the skbuff as if it just came from __alloc_skb().
+ */
+void skb_recycle(struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+ struct skb_shared_info *shinfo;
+ u8 head_frag = skb->head_frag;
+
+ skb_release_head_state(skb);
+
+ shinfo = skb_shinfo(skb);
+ memset(shinfo, 0, offsetof(struct skb_shared_info, dataref));
+ atomic_set(&shinfo->dataref, 1);
+
+ memset(skb, 0, offsetof(struct sk_buff, tail));
+ skb->data = skb->head + NET_SKB_PAD;
+ skb->head_frag = head_frag;
+ skb_reset_tail_pointer(skb);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(skb_recycle);
+
/* Make sure a field is enclosed inside headers_start/headers_end section */
#define CHECK_SKB_FIELD(field) \
BUILD_BUG_ON(offsetof(struct sk_buff, field) < \