netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC] net: introduce support for lazy initialization of secret keys

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Message-ID: <20130925221400.GD12025@breakpoint.cc>
Date:	Thu, 26 Sep 2013 00:14:00 +0200
From:	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] net: introduce support for lazy initialization of
 secret keys

Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org> wrote:
> This patch splits the secret key for syncookies between ipv4 and ipv6
> and initializes them with net_get_random_once. This change was the reason
> I did this patch. I think the initialization of the syncookie_secret is
> way to early.

Agreed, thanks for working on this.
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