<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >alloc_skb</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="The Linux Kernel API" HREF="book1.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Socket Buffer Functions" HREF="c4743.html#AEN4745"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="skb_under_panic" HREF="r5803.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="__kfree_skb" HREF="r5881.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="REFENTRY" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >The Linux Kernel API</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="r5803.html" ACCESSKEY="P" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="r5881.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="AEN5844" ></A ><SPAN CLASS="phrase" ><SPAN CLASS="PHRASE" >alloc_skb</SPAN ></SPAN ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN5848" ></A ><H2 >Name</H2 >alloc_skb -- allocate a network buffer </DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV" ><A NAME="AEN5851" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><DIV CLASS="FUNCSYNOPSIS" ><A NAME="AEN5853" ></A ><P ></P ><P ><CODE ><CODE CLASS="FUNCDEF" >struct sk_buff * <TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >alloc_skb </TT ></CODE >(unsigned int <TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >size</I ></TT >, int <TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >gfp_mask</I ></TT >);</CODE ></P ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN5861" ></A ><H2 >Arguments</H2 ><P ></P ><DIV CLASS="VARIABLELIST" ><DL ><DT ><TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >size</I ></TT ></DT ><DD ><P > size to allocate </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >gfp_mask</I ></TT ></DT ><DD ><P > allocation mask </P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN5874" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><P > Allocate a new &sk_buff. The returned buffer has no headroom and a tail room of size bytes. The object has a reference count of one. The return is the buffer. On a failure the return is <TT CLASS="CONSTANT" >NULL</TT >. </P ><P > Buffers may only be allocated from interrupts using a <TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >gfp_mask</I ></TT > of <TT CLASS="CONSTANT" >GFP_ATOMIC</TT >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="r5803.html" ACCESSKEY="P" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="book1.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="r5881.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><SPAN CLASS="phrase" ><SPAN CLASS="PHRASE" >skb_under_panic</SPAN ></SPAN ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="c4743.html#AEN4745" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><SPAN CLASS="phrase" ><SPAN CLASS="PHRASE" >__kfree_skb</SPAN ></SPAN ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >