Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.2 31/53] neighbor: fix proxy_delay usage when it is zero

Jakub Kicinski
2023-02-27T18:15:13Z

On Sun, 26 Feb 2023 09:44:23 -0500 Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Brian Haley <haleyb.dev@gmail.com>
>
> [ Upstream commit 62e395f82d04510b0f86e5e603e29412be88596f ]
>
> When set to zero, the neighbor sysctl proxy_delay value
> does not cause an immediate reply for ARP/ND requests
> as expected, it instead causes a random delay between
> [0, U32_MAX). Looking at this comment from
> __get_random_u32_below() explains the reason:

Potential behavior change, can we wait 4 weeks, until it's been
in a couple of -rcs?