netdev - Re: Introduce support to lazy initialize mostly static keys

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Message-ID: <20130926233005.GA15766@order.stressinduktion.org>
Date:	Fri, 27 Sep 2013 01:30:05 +0200
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com, davem@...emloft.net,
	fw@...len.de, ycheng@...gle.com
Subject: Re: Introduce support to lazy initialize mostly static keys

On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 01:16:57AM +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> This series implements support for delaying the initialization of secret
> keys, e.g. used for hashing, for as long as possible. This functionality
> is implemented by a new macro, net_get_random_bytes.
> 
> I already used it to protect the socket hashes, the syncookie secret
> (most important) and the tcp_fastopen secrets.
> 
> This series depends on a patch from Eric Dumazet (already in patchworks):
> "net: net_secret should not depend on TCP"

Oh, sorry. My tunnel was not working. Mails hit a strange fallback. Will
resend shortly.
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