net: flow_dissector: add __skb_get_poff to get a start offset to payload
authorDaniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Tue, 19 Mar 2013 06:39:30 +0000 (06:39 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:15:45 +0000 (13:15 -0400)
__skb_get_poff() returns the offset to the payload as far as it could
be dissected. The main user is currently BPF, so that we can dynamically
truncate packets without needing to push actual payload to the user
space and instead can analyze headers only.

Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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