netdev - Re: [PATCH net 0/5] wireguard fixes for 5.6-rc7

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Date:   Wed, 18 Mar 2020 18:54:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     Jason@...c4.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/5] wireguard fixes for 5.6-rc7

From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 18:30:42 -0600

> I originally intended to spend this cycle working on fun optimizations
> and architecture for WireGuard for 5.7, but I've been a bit neurotic
> about having 5.6 ship without any show stopper bugs. WireGuard has been
> stable for a long time now, but that doesn't make me any less nervous
> about the real deal in 5.6. To that end, I've been doing code reviews
> and having discussions, and we also had a security firm audit the code.
> That audit didn't turn up any vulnerabilities, but they did make a good
> defense-in-depth suggestion. This series contains:
> 
> 1) Removal of a duplicated header, from YueHaibing.
> 2) Testing with 64-bit time in our test suite.
> 3) Account for skb->protocol==0 due to AF_PACKET sockets, suggested
>    by Florian Fainelli.
> 4) Clean up some code in an unreachable switch/case branch, suggested
>    by Florian Fainelli.
> 5) Better handling of low-order points, discussed with Mathias
>    Hall-Andersen.

Series applied, please start providing appropriate Fixes: tags in the
future.

Thank you.