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

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Date:   Tue, 22 Feb 2022 16:18:10 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com>
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 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