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From: Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, mvadkert@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: assign the sock correctly to an outgoing SYNACK packet
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:26:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <10426929.HS2uObfqRU@sifl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1365445303.3887.33.camel@edumazet-glaptop>

On Monday, April 08, 2013 11:21:43 AM Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-04-08 at 14:12 -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
> > It seems a bit fragile to me, perhaps even hacky, but in some ways I guess
> > it isn't anymore fragile than relying on skb->sk - as this problem
> > demonstrates. My other concern is that adding this hook *correctly* is
> > likely to touch a lot of files and may be a bit much so late in the 3.9
> > cycle, Dave, what say you?
>
> I don't get it, 90ba9b1986b5ac4b2d18 was in 3.6, why do you care of
> 3.9 ?

I wasn't made aware of the particular bug until just recently.  When I see a 
regression I generally try to get it fixed as soon as possible.
 
> I am preparing a fix right now. Not a revert, thank you.

I guess we'll have to wait and see then; the more I think about the new hook 
you proposed the less enthused I am about it.

I'm still curious to hear what Dave has to say on this.

-- 
paul moore
security and virtualization @ redhat

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-08 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-08 15:45 [PATCH] tcp: assign the sock correctly to an outgoing SYNACK packet Paul Moore
2013-04-08 16:14 ` David Miller
2013-04-08 17:22   ` Paul Moore
2013-04-08 17:36     ` Eric Dumazet
2013-04-08 17:40       ` Paul Moore
2013-04-08 17:47         ` Eric Dumazet
2013-04-08 18:01           ` Eric Dumazet
2013-04-08 18:12           ` Paul Moore
2013-04-08 18:21             ` Eric Dumazet
2013-04-08 18:26               ` Paul Moore [this message]
2013-04-08 18:34                 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-04-08 18:30               ` Eric Dumazet
2013-04-08 20:37                 ` Paul Moore
2013-04-08 20:44                   ` David Miller
2013-04-08 20:53                     ` Paul Moore
2013-04-08 20:55                   ` Eric Dumazet
2013-04-08 21:09                     ` Paul Moore
2013-04-08 21:14                       ` David Miller
2013-04-08 21:17                       ` Eric Dumazet
2013-04-09  3:58                       ` [PATCH] selinux: add a skb_owned_by() hook Eric Dumazet
2013-04-09  4:29                         ` Casey Schaufler
2013-04-09  4:41                           ` David Miller
2013-04-09  5:14                             ` Casey Schaufler
2013-04-09 11:39                             ` Paul Moore
2013-04-09  6:24                           ` Eric Dumazet
2013-04-09 11:45                           ` Paul Moore
2013-04-09  7:38                         ` James Morris
2013-04-09 12:06                         ` Paul Moore
2013-04-09 17:23                         ` David Miller
2013-04-08 18:32             ` [PATCH] tcp: assign the sock correctly to an outgoing SYNACK packet Paul Moore
2013-04-08 18:32               ` Paul Moore
2013-04-08 21:10               ` Paul Moore
2013-04-08 21:10                 ` Paul Moore
2013-04-08 21:15                 ` David Miller
2013-04-08 21:24                   ` Paul Moore
2013-04-08 21:24                     ` Paul Moore
2013-04-08 21:33                     ` David Miller
2013-04-08 22:01                       ` Paul Moore
2013-04-08 22:01                         ` Paul Moore
2013-04-08 22:08                         ` David Miller
2013-04-08 23:40                       ` Casey Schaufler
2013-04-08 23:40                         ` Casey Schaufler
2013-04-09  0:33                         ` Eric Dumazet
2013-04-09  0:59                           ` Casey Schaufler
2013-04-09  0:59                             ` Casey Schaufler
2013-04-09  1:09                             ` Eric Dumazet
2013-04-09  1:24                               ` Casey Schaufler
2013-04-09  1:24                                 ` Casey Schaufler
2013-04-09 13:19                                 ` Paul Moore
2013-04-09 13:19                                   ` Paul Moore
2013-04-09 13:33                                   ` Paul Moore
2013-04-09 13:33                                     ` Paul Moore
2013-04-09 14:00                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2013-04-09 14:19                                     ` Paul Moore
2013-04-09 14:19                                       ` Paul Moore
2013-04-09 14:31                                       ` Eric Dumazet
2013-04-09 14:52                                         ` Paul Moore
2013-04-09 14:52                                           ` Paul Moore
2013-04-09 15:05                                           ` Paul Moore
2013-04-09 15:05                                             ` Paul Moore
2013-04-09 15:07                                           ` Eric Dumazet
2013-04-09 15:17                                             ` Paul Moore
2013-04-09 15:17                                               ` Paul Moore
2013-04-09 15:32                                               ` Eric Dumazet
2013-04-09 15:57                                                 ` Paul Moore
2013-04-09 15:57                                                   ` Paul Moore
2013-04-09 16:11                                                 ` Casey Schaufler
2013-04-09 16:11                                                   ` Casey Schaufler
2013-04-09 16:56                                                 ` David Miller
2013-04-09 17:00                                                   ` Paul Moore
2013-04-09 17:00                                                     ` Paul Moore
2013-04-09 17:09                                                     ` David Miller
2013-04-09 17:10                                                       ` David Miller
2013-04-09 14:05                                   ` Ben Hutchings
2013-04-09 14:10                                     ` Paul Moore
2013-04-09 14:10                                       ` Paul Moore
2013-04-08 21:34                     ` Ben Hutchings
2013-04-08 19:25     ` David Miller
2013-04-08 16:19 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-04-08 18:03 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2013-04-08 18:12   ` Paul Moore

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