netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 0/5]: ixgbevf: Allow querying VFs RSS indirection table and key

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Date:	Tue, 6 Jan 2015 21:15:46 +0200
From:	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...udius-systems.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Greg Rose <gvrose8192@...il.com>,
	Vlad Zolotarov <vladz@...udius-systems.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Avi Kivity <avi@...udius-systems.com>,
	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 0/5]: ixgbevf: Allow querying VFs RSS
 indirection table and key

On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 10:59:04AM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-01-06 at 20:04 +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > Is RSS hash security feature at all? Against what kind of attack? It
> > looks like some drivers (igb among them) use non random value for the key.
> 
> 
> Are you sure ? I thought I toko care of this already.
> 
> For igb this was in : 
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=eb31f8493eee1efcc194fdc98df830a503f572f1
> 
Indeed. I looked in a couple of month old tree.

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			Gleb.
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