Use of skb->cb

Santhosh Kumar forwardinglnx at gmail.com
Sat Aug 23 13:24:00 EDT 2014


My understanding is every layer is free to use the skb->cb field in any way
they wish but it will not be preserved by the upper layers in the network
stack.

I would like to use the skb->cb in the layer2/bridging code. Are there any
caveats that one should be aware of ?

Santhosh.
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