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Message-ID: <20231020153316.1c152c80@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2023 15:33:16 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Ahmed Zaki <ahmed.zaki@...el.com>
Cc: <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
 <intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org>, <corbet@....net>,
 <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>, <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>,
 <davem@...emloft.net>, <edumazet@...gle.com>, <pabeni@...hat.com>,
 <vladimir.oltean@....com>, <andrew@...n.ch>, <horms@...nel.org>,
 <mkubecek@...e.cz>, <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>, Wojciech Drewek
 <wojciech.drewek@...el.com>, Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>,
 Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 1/6] net: ethtool: allow symmetric-xor RSS
 hash for any flow type

On Fri, 20 Oct 2023 15:24:41 -0600 Ahmed Zaki wrote:
> > IMO fat warning in the documentation and ethtool man saying that this
> > makes the algo (any / all) vulnerable to attack would be enough.
> > Willem?  
> 
> Please advise on the next step. Should I send a new version with the Doc 
> warning, or will you use v5?

Not just the doc changes:

| We can use one of the reserved fields of struct ethtool_rxfh to carry
| this extension. I think I asked for this at some point, but there's
| only so much repeated feedback one can send in a day :(

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231016163059.23799429@kernel.org/

You can take care of that, post v6 and see what Alex and Willem say.

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