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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: ast@domdv.de
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RESEND][PATCH] Fix MACsec kernel panics, oopses and bugs
Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 09:11:06 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190523.091106.645519899189717299.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32eb738a0a0f3ed5880911e4ac4ceedca76e3f52.camel@domdv.de>

From: Andreas Steinmetz <ast@domdv.de>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 09:46:15 +0200

> MACsec causes oopses followed by a kernel panic when attached directly or indirectly to a bridge. It causes erroneous
> checksum messages when attached to vxlan. When I did investigate I did find skb leaks, apparent skb mis-handling and
> superfluous code. The attached patch fixes all MACsec misbehaviour I could find. As I am no kernel developer somebody
> with sufficient kernel network knowledge should verify and correct the patch where necessary.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Steinmetz <ast@domdv.de>

Subject lines should be of the form:

[PATCH $DST_TREE] $subsystem_prefix: Description.

Where $DST_TREE here would be "net" and $subsystem_prefix would be "macsec".

> +	/* FIXME: any better way to prevent calls to netdev_rx_csum_fault? */
> +	skb->csum_complete_sw = 1;

Create a helper for this in linux/skbuff.h with very clear and clean comments
explaining what is going on.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-23 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-23  7:46 [RESEND][PATCH] Fix MACsec kernel panics, oopses and bugs Andreas Steinmetz
2019-05-23 16:11 ` David Miller [this message]
2019-05-27 17:50   ` Andreas Steinmetz
2019-05-24 10:09 ` Sabrina Dubroca

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