Re: [lwip-users] p->payload == iphdr failed...

[Jonathan Larmour]

Ed Sutter wrote:
> 
> To be more efficient, I changed this by using PBUF_REF and
> setting the payload pointer to the packet buffer...
> 
>     ....
>     len = mon_recvenetpkt((char *)ipacket,sizeof(ipacket));
>     if (len) {
>         p = pbuf_alloc(PBUF_RAW, len, PBUF_REF);
>         if (p) {
>             p->payload = ipacket;
>             ethernet_input(p, mynetifp);
>     ....
> 
> This new code works ok with incoming expected packets.
> The original code doesn't cause the assertion error above.
> Is the "new" code above incorrect?

What frees ipacket's memory? Is there any chance that memory can be reused
before the pbuf is freed?

You may also need to consider the alignment of ipacket.

Jifl
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