netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] bareudp: Reverted support to enable & disable rx metadata collection

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Message-ID: <20200716024616.GA6525@martin-VirtualBox>
Date:   Thu, 16 Jul 2020 08:16:16 +0530
From:   Martin Varghese <martinvarghesenokia@...il.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, gnault@...hat.com,
        Martin Varghese <martin.varghese@...ia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bareudp: Reverted support to enable & disable
 rx metadata collection

On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 01:43:47PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 08:42:40 +0530 Martin Varghese wrote:
> > From: Martin Varghese <martin.varghese@...ia.com>
> > 
> > The commit fe80536acf83 ("bareudp: Added attribute to enable & disable
> > rx metadata collection") breaks the the original(5.7) default behavior of
> > bareudp module to collect RX metadadata at the receive. It was added to
> > avoid the crash at the kernel neighbour subsytem when packet with metadata
> > from bareudp is processed. But it is no more needed as the
> > commit 394de110a733 ("net: Added pointer check for
> > dst->ops->neigh_lookup in dst_neigh_lookup_skb") solves this crash.
> > 
> > Fixes: fe80536acf83 ("bareudp: Added attribute to enable & disable rx metadata collection")
> > Signed-off-by: Martin Varghese <martin.varghese@...ia.com>
> 
> Looks like you didn't remove the mention of the RX_COLLECT_METADATA
> flag from the documentation - is this intentional?

No I missed it. Thanks for pointing it out.

Thanks
Martin