netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH] IP: do not modify ingress packet IP option in ip_options

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Date:   Sun, 06 Aug 2017 20:49:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     hannes@...essinduktion.org
Cc:     pabeni@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com,
        kuznet@....inr.ac.ru
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] IP: do not modify ingress packet IP option in
 ip_options_echo()

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 16:47:42 -0400

> David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> writes:
> 
>> The red flag is that we are indexing 'start' with 'doffset' instead of
>> 'soffset'.
> 
> As Paolo pointed out, we should not put our own source address into the
> options array.
> 
> Do you have any idea why this code was added in the first place? I read
> through 2.0.33 code and even in context of this version, I couldn't
> figure that out.
> 
> Because it seems the code and update is dead anyways (besides
> incorrectly updating the ICMP reflected payload) I don't see any problem
> with removing this code. Do you?

Ok, now I'm convinced it's dead code.

Thanks for explaining.