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The "environmental" rules for authors of any new tc actions are: |
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1) If you stealeth or borroweth any packet thou shalt be branching from the righteous path and thou shalt cloneth. |
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For example if your action queues a packet to be processed later, or intentionally branches by redirecting a packet, then you need to |
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clone the packet. |
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There are certain fields in the skb tc_verd that need to be reset so we |
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avoid loops, etc. A few are generic enough that skb_act_clone() resets them for you, so invoke skb_act_clone() rather than skb_clone(). |
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2) If you munge any packet thou shalt call pskb_expand_head in the case someone else is referencing the skb. After that you "own" the skb. You must also tell us if it is ok to munge the packet (TC_OK2MUNGE), this way any action downstream can stomp on the packet. |
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3) Dropping packets you don't own is a no-no. You simply return |
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TC_ACT_SHOT to the caller and they will drop it. |
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The "environmental" rules for callers of actions (qdiscs etc) are: |
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*) Thou art responsible for freeing anything returned as being |
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TC_ACT_SHOT/STOLEN/QUEUED. If none of TC_ACT_SHOT/STOLEN/QUEUED is |
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returned, then all is great and you don't need to do anything. |
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Post on netdev if something is unclear. |