skb_header_release(9)

skb_header_release9

Release reference to header

Usage

void skb_header_release(struct sk_buff * skb);

Arguments

skb

buffer to operate on

Overview

Drop a reference to the header part of the buffer. This is done by acquiring a payload reference. You must not read from the header part of skb->data after this.

Note

Check if you can use __skb_header_release instead.

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.