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authorSang-Heon Jeon <ekffu200098@gmail.com>2026-08-24 01:18:14 +0900
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coccinelle: alloc_cast: drop removed allocatorsgrafted
- pci_alloc_consistent() and pci_zalloc_consistent() were removed by commit 7968778914e5 ("PCI: Remove the deprecated "pci-dma-compat.h" API") - kmem_alloc() was removed by commit f078d4ea8276 ("xfs: convert kmem_alloc() to kmalloc()") - kmem_zalloc() was removed by commit 10634530f7ba ("xfs: convert kmem_zalloc() to kzalloc()") - kmem_zone_alloc() and kmem_zone_zalloc() were removed by commit bae633a4a283 ("xfs: remove xfs_zone_{alloc,zalloc} helpers") So drop them from the rules. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Sang-Heon Jeon <ekffu200098@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@inria.fr>
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+================================
+TC Actions - Environmental Rules
+================================
+
+
+The "environmental" rules for authors of any new tc actions are:
+
+1) If you stealeth or borroweth any packet thou shalt be branching
+ from the righteous path and thou shalt cloneth.
+
+ For example if your action queues a packet to be processed later,
+ or intentionally branches by redirecting a packet, then you need to
+ clone the packet.
+
+2) If you munge any packet thou shalt call pskb_expand_head in the case
+ someone else is referencing the skb. After that you "own" the skb.
+
+3) Dropping packets you don't own is a no-no. You simply return
+ TC_ACT_SHOT to the caller and they will drop it.
+
+The "environmental" rules for callers of actions (qdiscs etc) are:
+
+#) Thou art responsible for freeing anything returned as being
+ TC_ACT_SHOT/STOLEN/QUEUED. If none of TC_ACT_SHOT/STOLEN/QUEUED is
+ returned, then all is great and you don't need to do anything.
+
+Post on netdev if something is unclear.