skb_clone(9)

skb_clone9

Duplicate an sk_buff

Usage

struct sk_buff * skb_clone(struct sk_buff * skb, gfp_t gfp_mask);

Arguments

skb

buffer to clone

gfp_mask

allocation priority

Overview

Duplicate an sk_buff. The new one is not owned by a socket. Both copies share the same packet data but not structure. The new buffer has a reference count of 1. If the allocation fails the function returns NULL otherwise the new buffer is returned.

If this function is called from an interrupt gfp_mask must be GFP_ATOMIC.

Releases

6 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7
  5. 8
  6. 9

From linux-manual-4.9 4.9.228-1 in Debian 9 (Stretch). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.