netdev - Re: [PATCH net 00/10] wireguard/siphash patches for 5.16-rc6

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Message-ID: <20211129101712.0b74c2a8@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Mon, 29 Nov 2021 10:17:12 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 00/10] wireguard/siphash patches for 5.16-rc6

On Mon, 29 Nov 2021 10:39:19 -0500 Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Here's quite a largeish set of stable patches I've had queued up and
> testing for a number of months now:
> 
>   - Patch (1) squelches a sparse warning by fixing an annotation.
>   - Patches (2), (3), and (5) are minor improvements and fixes to the
>     test suite.
>   - Patch (4) is part of a tree-wide cleanup to have module-specific
>     init and exit functions.
>   - Patch (6) fixes a an issue with dangling dst references, by having a
>     function to release references immediately rather than deferring,
>     and adds an associated test case to prevent this from regressing.
>   - Patches (7) and (8) help mitigate somewhat a potential DoS on the
>     ingress path due to the use of skb_list's locking hitting contention
>     on multiple cores by switching to using a ring buffer and dropping
>     packets on contention rather than locking up another core spinning.
>   - Patch (9) switches kvzalloc to kvcalloc for better form.
>   - Patch (10) fixes alignment traps in siphash with clang-13 (and maybe
>     other compilers) on armv6, by switching to using the unaligned
>     functions by default instead of the aligned functions by default.

Typo in the subject, right? No particular connection to -rc6 here?
Just checking.