acket. It still had to be copied into a skb because of an extra buffer used for the actual preparation of the data. This is unnecessary and can be replaced by a simple clone instead of an full copy before each send. This makes also the send_raw_packet function obsolete. Reported-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Â