openwrt/target/linux/generic/patches-4.9/023-7-kaweth-use-skb_cow_head-to-deal-with-cloned-skbs.patch

From 39fba7835aacda65284a86e611774cbba71dac20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 09:59:26 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] kaweth: use skb_cow_head() to deal with cloned skbs

We can use skb_cow_head() to properly deal with clones,
especially the ones coming from TCP stack that allow their head being
modified. This avoids a copy.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: James Hughes <james.hughes@raspberrypi.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
 drivers/net/usb/kaweth.c | 18 ++++++------------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/usb/kaweth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/kaweth.c
@@ -803,18 +803,12 @@ static netdev_tx_t kaweth_start_xmit(str
 	}
 
 	/* We now decide whether we can put our special header into the sk_buff */
-	if (skb_cloned(skb) || skb_headroom(skb) < 2) {
-		/* no such luck - we make our own */
-		struct sk_buff *copied_skb;
-		copied_skb = skb_copy_expand(skb, 2, 0, GFP_ATOMIC);
-		dev_kfree_skb_irq(skb);
-		skb = copied_skb;
-		if (!copied_skb) {
-			kaweth->stats.tx_errors++;
-			netif_start_queue(net);
-			spin_unlock_irq(&kaweth->device_lock);
-			return NETDEV_TX_OK;
-		}
+	if (skb_cow_head(skb, 2)) {
+		kaweth->stats.tx_errors++;
+		netif_start_queue(net);
+		spin_unlock_irq(&kaweth->device_lock);
+		dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
+		return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 	}
 
 	private_header = (__le16 *)__skb_push(skb, 2);