ZeroCopy read packet data causes heap allocations in pcapNextPacketEx

[baryluk]

gopacket@v1.1.19

go version go1.21.1 linux/amd64

Fedora 39, amd64

ZeroCopy receiving using pcap on Unix causes 1-allocation per receive, which is very unfortunate:

There is a mysterious comment in this function suggesting some weirdness with GC:

func (p *Handle) pcapNextPacketEx() NextError {
    // This horrible magic allows us to pass a ptr-to-ptr to pcap_next_ex
    // without causing that ptr-to-ptr to itself be allocated on the heap.
    // Since Handle itself survives through the duration of the pcap_next_ex
    // call, this should be perfectly safe for GC stuff, etc.

    return NextError(C.pcap_next_ex_escaping(p.cptr, C.uintptr_t(uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&p.pkthdr))), C.uintptr_t(uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&p.bufptr)))))
}

No idea why this allocates anything.