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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968" /><title>dev_forward_skb</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2" /><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Linux Networking and Network Devices APIs" /><link rel="up" href="ch02.html#id2748878" title="Driver Support" /><link rel="prev" href="re215.html" title="unregister_netdevice_notifier" /><link rel="next" href="re217.html" title="netif_device_detach" /></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center"><span>dev_forward_skb</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="re215.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Driver Support</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="re217.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="refentry" title="dev_forward_skb"><a id="API-dev-forward-skb"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>dev_forward_skb —
loopback an skb to another netif
</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="Synopsis"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" summary="Function synopsis" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="funcprototype-table"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">int <b class="fsfunc">dev_forward_skb </b>(</code></td><td>struct net_device * <var class="pdparam">dev</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>struct sk_buff * <var class="pdparam">skb</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer"> </div></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="Arguments"><a id="id2751701"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>dev</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
destination network device
</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>skb</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
buffer to forward
</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="return values"><a id="id2751745"></a><h2>return values</h2><p>
NET_RX_SUCCESS (no congestion)
NET_RX_DROP (packet was dropped)
</p><p>
dev_forward_skb can be used for injecting an skb from the
start_xmit function of one device into the receive queue
of another device.
</p><p>
The receiving device may be in another namespace, so
we have to clear all information in the skb that could
impact namespace isolation.
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