netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] mptcp: ADD_ADDRs with echo bit are smaller

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Date:   Sat, 03 Oct 2020 17:36:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     matthieu.baerts@...sares.net
Cc:     mathew.j.martineau@...ux.intel.com, kuba@...nel.org,
        geliangtang@...il.com, dcaratti@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        mptcp@...ts.01.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] mptcp: ADD_ADDRs with echo bit are smaller

From: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@...sares.net>
Date: Sat,  3 Oct 2020 17:36:56 +0200

> The MPTCP ADD_ADDR suboption with echo-flag=1 has no HMAC, the size is
> smaller than the one initially sent without echo-flag=1. We then need to
> use the correct size everywhere when we need this echo bit.
> 
> Before this patch, the wrong size was reserved but the correct amount of
> bytes were written (and read): the remaining bytes contained garbage.
> 
> Fixes: 6a6c05a8b016 ("mptcp: send out ADD_ADDR with echo flag")
> Closes: https://github.com/multipath-tcp/mptcp_net-next/issues/95
> Reported-and-tested-by: Davide Caratti <dcaratti@...hat.com>
> Acked-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@...sares.net>

Applied.