netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ipv4: remove fib

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Thu, 28 Sep 2017 07:25:57 -0600
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ipv4: remove fib_weight

On 9/27/17 10:51 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 19:08:00 -0700
> 
>> fib_weight in fib_info is set but not used. Remove it and the
>> helpers for setting it.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
> 
> Hmmm, I wonder then what Peter intended in commit
> 0e884c78ee19e902f300ed147083c28a0c6302f0 ("ipv4: L3 hash-based
> multipath") because that's where this came from.
> 

You can see that fib_weight is set but not used in his patch either.
Perhaps it was an early idea that was replaced by the per-nexthop
nh_upper_bound and that code was not removed.