From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Coco Li <lixiaoyan@google.com>,
Amritha Nambiar <amritha.nambiar@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netdev: Use flexible array for trailing private bytes
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2024 15:42:49 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202403061540.A8462E9@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240306070658.4216fdf2@kernel.org>
On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 07:06:58AM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 05:16:16 -0800 Breno Leitao wrote:
> > I've been looking at some of these embedders as reported by Kees[1], and
> > most of them are for dummy interfaces. I.e, they are basically used for
> > schedule NAPI poll.
> >
> > From that list[1], most of the driver matches with:
> >
> > # git grep init_dummy_netdev
> >
> > That said, do you think it is still worth cleaning up embedders for
> > dummy net_devices?
> >
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/202402281554.C1CEEF744@keescook/
>
> Yes, I think so.
> Kees, did you plan to send a v2? Otherwise I can put the cleanup on our
> "public ToDo" list :)
I found the requested collateral changes that popped out of v1 to be
rather a bit much for me to tackle right now, so I think adding to the
TODO list is probably best. :)
-Kees
--
Kees Cook
prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-06 23:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-29 21:30 [PATCH] netdev: Use flexible array for trailing private bytes Kees Cook
2024-02-29 22:15 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2024-03-01 6:59 ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-03-01 8:03 ` Eric Dumazet
2024-03-01 12:58 ` Alexander Lobakin
2024-03-01 13:25 ` Eric Dumazet
2024-03-01 14:30 ` Alexander Lobakin
2024-03-01 17:35 ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-03-04 14:32 ` Alexander Lobakin
2024-03-04 15:24 ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-03-01 11:41 ` Greg KH
2024-03-06 13:16 ` Breno Leitao
2024-03-06 15:06 ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-03-06 23:42 ` Kees Cook [this message]
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