Name

alloc_skb — allocate a network buffer

Synopsis

struct sk_buff * alloc_skb (unsigned int  size,
 int  gfp_mask);

Arguments

size

size to allocate

gfp_mask

allocation mask

Description

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 NULL.

Buffers may only be allocated from interrupts using a gfp_mask of GFP_ATOMIC.