linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] net-next: dsa: add flow_dissect callback to struct dsa_device

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]

Message-ID: <20170809135159.GD30723@lunn.ch>
Date:   Wed, 9 Aug 2017 15:51:59 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>
Cc:     Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Muciri Gatimu <muciri@...nmesh.com>,
        Shashidhar Lakkavalli <shashidhar.lakkavalli@...nmesh.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] net-next: dsa: add flow_dissect callback to struct
 dsa_device_ops

On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 02:41:17PM +0200, John Crispin wrote:
> When the flow dissector first sees packets coming in on a DSA devices the
> 802.3 header wont be located where the code expects it to be as the tag
> is still present. Adding this new callback allows a DSA device to provide a
> new function that the flow_dissector can use to get the correct protocol
> and offset of the network header.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Muciri Gatimu <muciri@...nmesh.com>
> Signed-off-by: Shashidhar Lakkavalli <shashidhar.lakkavalli@...nmesh.com>
> Signed-off-by: John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>

    Andrew