netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] l2tp: remove configurable offset parameters

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Date:   Fri, 05 Jan 2018 11:04:05 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     g.nault@...halink.fr
Cc:     jchapman@...alix.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        lorenzo.bianconi@...hat.com, liuhangbin@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] l2tp: remove configurable offset
 parameters

From: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@...halink.fr>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 11:32:28 +0100

> On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 10:48:03PM +0000, James Chapman wrote:
>> This patch series removes all code to support a configurable offset in
>> transmitted l2tp packets. Code to handle this is incomplete and buggy
>> and has been this way for years. If anyone tried to configure an
>> offset, it would be ignored for L2TPv2 tunnels, or for L2TPv3 tunnels,
>> could result in L2TPv3 packets being transmitted which are not
>> compliant with L2TPv3 RFC3931. This patch series removes the support
>> for configurable offsets.
>> 
> Thanks for the detailed cover letter!
> 
> There are a few more places talking about offsets:
>   * Description of SESSION_CREATE in include/uapi/linux/l2tp.h.
>   * Description of L2TPv3 packet format above l2tp_recv_common() in
>     net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c.
> 
> I can submit a followup patch to remove them.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@...halink.fr>
> Tested-by: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@...halink.fr>

Series applied, thanks everyone.