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

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Date:   Mon, 29 Nov 2021 13:18:06 -0500
From:   "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 00/10] wireguard/siphash patches for 5.16-rc6

On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 1:17 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

I definitely meant to type 5.16-rc4, yes, sorry. Noticed this after it
was too late.