netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/tcp: Merge TCP-MD5 inbound callbacks

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Message-ID: <fc0ebb9b-4097-c5a1-cff3-bce7addf9b78@arista.com>
Date:   Wed, 23 Feb 2022 12:19:46 +0000
From:   Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@...il.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/tcp: Merge TCP-MD5 inbound callbacks

On 2/23/22 00:18, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2022 18:50:06 +0000 Dmitry Safonov wrote:
>> The functions do essentially the same work to verify TCP-MD5 sign.
>> Code can be merged into one family-independent function in order to
>> reduce copy'n'paste and generated code.
>> Later with TCP-AO option added, this will allow to create one function
>> that's responsible for segment verification, that will have all the
>> different checks for MD5/AO/non-signed packets, which in turn will help
>> to see checks for all corner-cases in one function, rather than spread
>> around different families and functions.
> 
> Please rebase on top of net-next

Thanks!
I've previously checked it on linux-next, was not aware that net-next is
not integrated or integrated with some delay?

Anyway, I've resent v2, based on net-next.

Thanks,
          Dmitry