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authorPaolo Abeni2017-06-12 11:23:41 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller2017-06-12 16:01:29 +0200
commit3889a803e1da9bd7cd10d6504bf281ee7e55dfd6 (patch)
treea02fdf7382352a186732bb51028ccebcdc2afde1 /include/linux/skbuff.h
parentsh_eth: add support for changing MTU (diff)
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net: factor out a helper to decrement the skb refcount
The same code is replicated in 3 different places; move it to a common helper. Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/skbuff.h')
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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index d460a4cbda1c..decce3655a48 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -867,6 +867,19 @@ static inline unsigned int skb_napi_id(const struct sk_buff *skb)
#endif
}
+/* decrement the reference count and return true if we can free the skb */
+static inline bool skb_unref(struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+ if (unlikely(!skb))
+ return false;
+ if (likely(atomic_read(&skb->users) == 1))
+ smp_rmb();
+ else if (likely(!atomic_dec_and_test(&skb->users)))
+ return false;
+
+ return true;
+}
+
void kfree_skb(struct sk_buff *skb);
void kfree_skb_list(struct sk_buff *segs);
void skb_tx_error(struct sk_buff *skb);