netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3] bareudp: Reverted support to enable & disable rx metadata collection

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Date:   Tue, 21 Jul 2020 18:31:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     martinvarghesenokia@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, gnault@...hat.com,
        martin.varghese@...ia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3] bareudp: Reverted support to enable &
 disable rx metadata collection

From: Martin Varghese <martinvarghesenokia@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 08:05:12 +0530

> 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>

Applied.