netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net/sched: act_mirred: better wording on protection against excessive stack growth

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Date:   Mon, 23 Jan 2023 14:40:29 -0500
From:   Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
To:     Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>
Cc:     Davide Caratti <dcaratti@...hat.com>, jiri@...nulli.us,
        lucien.xin@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, pabeni@...hat.com,
        wizhao@...hat.com, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net/sched: act_mirred: better wording on
 protection against excessive stack growth

On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 12:22 PM Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
<marcelo.leitner@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 06:01:39PM +0100, Davide Caratti wrote:
> > with commit e2ca070f89ec ("net: sched: protect against stack overflow in
> > TC act_mirred"), act_mirred protected itself against excessive stack growth
> > using per_cpu counter of nested calls to tcf_mirred_act(), and capping it
> > to MIRRED_RECURSION_LIMIT. However, such protection does not detect
> > recursion/loops in case the packet is enqueued to the backlog (for example,
> > when the mirred target device has RPS or skb timestamping enabled). Change
> > the wording from "recursion" to "nesting" to make it more clear to readers.
> >
> > CC: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Davide Caratti <dcaratti@...hat.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>

cheers,
jamal