skb_cloned(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 skb_cloned (Kernel API Manual, section 9) 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

skb_cloned — is the buffer a clone 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int skb_cloned (const struct sk_buff *skb );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • skb — the buffer you want to check, bestie. that's the one we're interrogating 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the tea ☕ — it returns true if the buffer was generated with skb_clone and it's one of multiple shared copies of that buffer. basically: this skb isn't an only child, it's got siblings, and they're all sharing the same data 👑

Cloned buffers are shared data, which means under normal circumstances you must not write to them. not a vibe check you want to fail, ngl 😭 that's literally the whole warning. write to shared data and everyone's copy gets messed up. no cap.

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

Kernel file ./include/linux/skbuff.h, plus the entire extended universe of skb besties — every single one of them, we do not gatekeep here 🌈:

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