Re: [PATCH 1/1] net: ipv6: flowlabel: defer exclusive option free until RCU teardown

Greg KH
2026-04-01T08:45:24Z

On Wed, Apr 01, 2026 at 12:05:31AM -0700, Yuan Tan wrote:
> On 3/31/2026 6:05 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 31, 2026 at 5:41 PM Yuan Tan <yuantan098@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 3/31/2026 1:52 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> >> Finally, regarding our tags, our team has a clear division of
> >> labor—some focus on finding vulnerabilities, others on fixing them,
> >> followed by an internal review and testing before a dedicated
> >> member handles community outreach.
> >>
> > You included 8 tags, this seems a bit too much for such a small patch.
> CC Greg here, as he knows a bit about our team's background.

Yeah, 8 tags "seems" like a lot, but for a team that is working on
these things, I think that is good, a bunch of people are wanting to be
on the "path of blame if something went wrong" which is nice to see,
they aren't just dumping the responsibility onto one person :)

So I don't have any objection to this at all, and in fact, welcome it.

> Our team has developed a tool that found hundreds of non-root bugs with
> PoCs. We want to ensure these are fixed properly and quickly rather than
> dumping reports onto the mailing list and hoping for others to find the
> time to fix. So we have organized a group of promising students. As some of
> them are new to kernel development, we have been providing hands-on
> mentorship to guide them through the process.

This is a good thing, thanks for doing this, it is helping both the
kernel out in getting these things fixed, and these students to get them
great experience in working upstream in a proper way.

This is great stuff, I wish more professors and schools would do this.

thanks,

greg k-h