Re: Question re. skb_orphan for TPROXY

2019-05-02 Thread Eric Dumazet
On 4/16/19 8:00 AM, Florian Westphal wrote: > Lorenz Bauer wrote: >> Apologies for contacting you out of the blue. I'm currently trying to >> understand how TPROXY works under the hood. As part of this endeavour, >> I've stumbled upon the commit attached to this email. >> >> From the commit mes

Re: Question re. skb_orphan for TPROXY

2019-04-18 Thread Lorenz Bauer
Hello Florian, Thank you, that makes sense. I guess that technically early demux also relies on the skb_orphan call to function? I think that's what confused me. Best Lorenz On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 at 17:00, Florian Westphal wrote: > > Lorenz Bauer wrote: > > Apologies for contacting you out of th

Re: Question re. skb_orphan for TPROXY

2019-04-16 Thread Florian Westphal
Lorenz Bauer wrote: > Apologies for contacting you out of the blue. I'm currently trying to > understand how TPROXY works under the hood. As part of this endeavour, > I've stumbled upon the commit attached to this email. > > From the commit message I infer that somewhere, TPROXY relies on a > che

Question re. skb_orphan for TPROXY

2019-04-16 Thread Lorenz Bauer
Hello Herbert (and List), Apologies for contacting you out of the blue. I'm currently trying to understand how TPROXY works under the hood. As part of this endeavour, I've stumbled upon the commit attached to this email. >From the commit message I infer that somewhere, TPROXY relies on a check of