netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/4] sfc: encapsulated filters

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Fri, 27 Jan 2017 11:59:53 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     ecree@...arflare.com
Cc:     linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/4] sfc: encapsulated filters

From: Edward Cree <ecree@...arflare.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 15:00:45 +0000

> This series adds support for setting up filters for encapsulated traffic on
> SFC 8000-series adapters, which recognise VXLAN, GENEVE and NVGRE packets by
> parsing packet headers.  (VXLAN and GENEVE will only be recognised if the
> driver on the primary PF has notified the firmware of relevant UDP ports,
> which this driver does not yet do.)
> While the driver currently has no way of using these filters for flow
> steering, it is nonetheless necessary to insert catch-all (aka 'default')
> filters to direct this traffic, similar to the existing unencapsulated uni-
> and multi-cast catch-all filters, as otherwise the traffic will be dropped
> by the NIC - implementation details of the hardware filtering mean that the
> traffic will not get matched on outer MAC address to unencapsulated catch-
> all filters.  (Yes, this is a mess.)
> Although this is, therefore, fixing a bug in the existing driver, it's a bug
> which has existed since 8000 series support was added, and the fix involves
> quite a big patch with an 'adding features' flavour to it, hence why this is
> for net-next rather than net and stable.
> 
> v2: move netif_cond_dbg into netdevice.h and its own patch

Yes, this looks better, series applied.

Thanks!