netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] net/sched: use the backlog for nested mirred ingress

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Date:   Tue, 24 Jan 2023 09:40:16 +0000
From:   patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To:     Davide Caratti <dcaratti@...hat.com>
Cc:     jhs@...atatu.com, jiri@...nulli.us, lucien.xin@...il.com,
        marcelo.leitner@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        pabeni@...hat.com, wizhao@...hat.com, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] net/sched: use the backlog for nested mirred
 ingress

Hello:

This series was applied to netdev/net-next.git (master)
by Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>:

On Fri, 20 Jan 2023 18:01:38 +0100 you wrote:
> TC mirred has a protection against excessive stack growth, but that
> protection doesn't really guarantee the absence of recursion, nor
> it guards against loops. Patch 1/2 rewords "recursion" to "nesting" to
> make this more clear.
> We can leverage on this existing mechanism to prevent TCP / SCTP from doing
> soft lock-up in some specific scenarios that uses mirred egress->ingress:
> patch 2 changes mirred so that the networking backlog is used for nested
> mirred ingress actions.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net-next,1/2] net/sched: act_mirred: better wording on protection against excessive stack growth
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/78dcdffe0418
  - [net-next,2/2] act_mirred: use the backlog for nested calls to mirred ingress
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/ca22da2fbd69

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