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