netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: macsec: Retrieve MACSec-XPN attributes before offloading

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Message-ID: <de4aab60766b3de8705b09e36b8050feb92865ec.camel@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu, 26 May 2022 10:59:23 +0200
From:   Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To:     Carlos Fernandez <carlos.escuin@...il.com>
Cc:     carlos.fernandez@...hnica-engineering.de,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Era Mayflower <mayflowerera@...il.com>,
        "open list:NETWORKING DRIVERS" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: macsec: Retrieve MACSec-XPN attributes before
 offloading

On Tue, 2022-05-24 at 13:41 +0200, Carlos Fernandez wrote:
> When MACsec offloading is used with XPN, before mdo_add_rxsa
> and mdo_add_txsa functions are called, the key salt is not
> copied to the macsec context struct. Offloaded phys will need
> this data when performing offloading.
> 
> Fix by copying salt and id to context struct before calling the
> offloading functions.
> 
> Fixes: 48ef50fa866a ("macsec: Netlink support of XPN cipher suites")
> Signed-off-by: Carlos Fernandez <carlos.fernandez@...hnica-engineering.de>

I'm sorry to nick-picking again, but this patch don't pass checkpatch
validation:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20220524114134.366696-1-carlos.fernandez@technica-engineering.de/

Specifically, you should add a 'From:' tag as the first line:

From: Carlos Fernandez <carlos.fernandez@...hnica-engineering.de>

(Or send this patch from the above email address)

Thanks!