netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ip6_tunnel: remove unreachable ICMP

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:   Tue, 9 May 2017 11:25:06 +0800
From:   Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     network dev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ip6_tunnel: remove unreachable ICMP_REDIRECT code

2017-05-09 3:59 GMT+08:00 David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>:
> From: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>
> Date: Mon,  8 May 2017 19:11:03 +0800
>
>> After call ip6_tnl_err(), the rel_type will be ether ICMPV6_DEST_UNREACH
>> or ICMPV6_PKT_TOOBIG. We will never reach ICMP_REDIRECT. So remove it.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>
>
> Your patches here, all seemingly due to "visual inspection", are starting
> to really, truly, irritate me.

Yes, this is based on the coverity scan result.  I'm really sorry to make
you feel uncomfortable and I apologize for this.  I trust the result too much
and did not do enough research. I will try my best to make sure the patch
really improve or fix something next time.

Sorry again.

Regards
Hangbin

>
> Half of them are unnecessary, some are completely buggy.
>
> I have to review them and audit them very satrictly as a result, and
> this takes up an unnecessarily large amount of my time.
>
> Therefore, I'm basically going to stop looking at your changes _unless_
> you can show that you specifically tested and exercised all of the code
> paths you are changing.
>
> I am sorry to have to do this, but the value to effort ratio of
> reviewing and integrating your changes is quite poor.