tc-actions-env-rules.txt 893 B

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  1. The "environmental" rules for authors of any new tc actions are:
  2. 1) If you stealeth or borroweth any packet thou shalt be branching
  3. from the righteous path and thou shalt cloneth.
  4. For example if your action queues a packet to be processed later,
  5. or intentionally branches by redirecting a packet, then you need to
  6. clone the packet.
  7. 2) If you munge any packet thou shalt call pskb_expand_head in the case
  8. someone else is referencing the skb. After that you "own" the skb.
  9. 3) Dropping packets you don't own is a no-no. You simply return
  10. TC_ACT_SHOT to the caller and they will drop it.
  11. The "environmental" rules for callers of actions (qdiscs etc) are:
  12. *) Thou art responsible for freeing anything returned as being
  13. TC_ACT_SHOT/STOLEN/QUEUED. If none of TC_ACT_SHOT/STOLEN/QUEUED is
  14. returned, then all is great and you don't need to do anything.
  15. Post on netdev if something is unclear.