linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/19] tcp: Initial support for RFC5925 auth option

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Message-ID: <f8e1d59f-5473-df7c-ee23-4c0a7a4d6f11@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 25 Sep 2021 17:25:35 +0300
From:   Leonard Crestez <cdleonard@...il.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@...il.com>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.co.jp>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>,
        Francesco Ruggeri <fruggeri@...sta.com>,
        Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@...ux.intel.com>,
        Christoph Paasch <cpaasch@...le.com>,
        Ivan Delalande <colona@...sta.com>,
        Priyaranjan Jha <priyarjha@...gle.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/19] tcp: Initial support for RFC5925 auth option



On 9/23/21 4:58 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2021 10:49:53 +0300 Leonard Crestez wrote:
>> Many of the patch splits were artificially created in order to ease
>> review, for example "signing packets" doesn't do anything without also
>> "hooking in the tcp stack". Some static functions will trigger warnings
>> because they're unused until the next patch, not clear what the
>> preferred solution would be here. I could remove the "static" marker
>> until the next patch or reverse the order and have the initial "tcp
>> integration" patches call crypto code that just returns an error and
>> fills-in a signature of zeros.
> 
> Ease of review is important, so although discouraged transient warnings
> are acceptable if the code is much easier to read that way. The problem
> here was that the build was also broken, but looking at it again I
> think you're just missing exports, please make sure to build test with
> IPV6 compiled as a module:
> 
> ERROR: modpost: "tcp_authopt_hash" [net/ipv6/ipv6.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: modpost: "__tcp_authopt_select_key" [net/ipv6/ipv6.ko] undefined!

The kernel build robot sent me an email regarding IPv6=m last time, I 
fixed that issue but introduced another. I check for IPv6=m specifically 
but only did "make net/ipv4/ net/ipv6/" and missed the error.

I went through the series and solved checkpatch, kernel-doc and 
compilation issues in a more systematic fashion, I will repost later.

--
Regards,
Leonard