netdev - Re: [PATCH/RFC net-next 1/2] flow dissector: ND support

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Date:   Thu, 02 Feb 2017 04:31:33 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Dinan Gunawardena <dinan.gunawardena@...ronome.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, oss-drivers@...ronome.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC net-next 1/2] flow dissector: ND support

On Thu, 2017-02-02 at 11:37 +0100, Simon Horman wrote:
> Allow dissection of Neighbour Discovery target IP, and source and
> destination link-layer addresses for neighbour solicitation and
> advertisement messages.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>
> ---

Hi Simon

Why is this needed ?

Any code added in flow dissector needs to be extra careful,
we had various packet of deaths errors recently in this area.

Thanks.