1<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968"><title>skb_copy_expand</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Linux Networking and Network Devices APIs"><link rel="up" href="ch01s02.html" title="Socket Buffer Functions"><link rel="prev" href="API-pskb-expand-head.html" title="pskb_expand_head"><link rel="next" href="API-skb-pad.html" title="skb_pad"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center"><span class="phrase">skb_copy_expand</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="API-pskb-expand-head.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Socket Buffer Functions</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="API-skb-pad.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry"><a name="API-skb-copy-expand"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>skb_copy_expand — 2 copy and expand sk_buff 3 </p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" class="funcprototype-table" summary="Function synopsis" style="cellspacing: 0; cellpadding: 0;"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">struct sk_buff * <b class="fsfunc">skb_copy_expand </b>(</code></td><td>const struct sk_buff * <var class="pdparam">skb</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>int <var class="pdparam">newheadroom</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>int <var class="pdparam">newtailroom</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>gfp_t <var class="pdparam">gfp_mask</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer"> </div></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1096120092"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>skb</code></em></span></dt><dd><p> 4 buffer to copy 5 </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>newheadroom</code></em></span></dt><dd><p> 6 new free bytes at head 7 </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>newtailroom</code></em></span></dt><dd><p> 8 new free bytes at tail 9 </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>gfp_mask</code></em></span></dt><dd><p> 10 allocation priority 11 </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1096124756"></a><h2>Description</h2><p> 12 Make a copy of both an <span class="structname">sk_buff</span> and its data and while doing so 13 allocate additional space. 14 </p><p> 15 16 This is used when the caller wishes to modify the data and needs a 17 private copy of the data to alter as well as more space for new fields. 18 Returns <code class="constant">NULL</code> on failure or the pointer to the buffer 19 on success. The returned buffer has a reference count of 1. 20 </p><p> 21 22 You must pass <code class="constant">GFP_ATOMIC</code> as the allocation priority if this function 23 is called from an interrupt. 24</p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="API-pskb-expand-head.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="ch01s02.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="API-skb-pad.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top"><span class="phrase">pskb_expand_head</span> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> <span class="phrase">skb_pad</span></td></tr></table></div></body></html> 25