From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hannes Frederic Sowa Subject: Re: Introduce support to lazy initialize mostly static keys Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 01:30:05 +0200 Message-ID: <20130926233005.GA15766@order.stressinduktion.org> References: <1380236199-3726-1-git-send-email-hannes@stressinduktion.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, edumazet@google.com, davem@davemloft.net, fw@strlen.de, ycheng@google.com Return-path: Received: from order.stressinduktion.org ([87.106.68.36]:53983 "EHLO order.stressinduktion.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750896Ab3IZXaH (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Sep 2013 19:30:07 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1380236199-3726-1-git-send-email-hannes@stressinduktion.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 01:16:57AM +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > This series implements support for delaying the initialization of secret > keys, e.g. used for hashing, for as long as possible. This functionality > is implemented by a new macro, net_get_random_bytes. > > I already used it to protect the socket hashes, the syncookie secret > (most important) and the tcp_fastopen secrets. > > This series depends on a patch from Eric Dumazet (already in patchworks): > "net: net_secret should not depend on TCP" Oh, sorry. My tunnel was not working. Mails hit a strange fallback. Will resend shortly.