netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v6] net: Implement fault injection forcing skb reallocation

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Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 11:20:30 +0000
From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To: Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v6] net: Implement fault injection forcing skb
 reallocation

Hello:

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

On Thu, 07 Nov 2024 08:11:44 -0800 you wrote:
> Introduce a fault injection mechanism to force skb reallocation. The
> primary goal is to catch bugs related to pointer invalidation after
> potential skb reallocation.
> 
> The fault injection mechanism aims to identify scenarios where callers
> retain pointers to various headers in the skb but fail to reload these
> pointers after calling a function that may reallocate the data. This
> type of bug can lead to memory corruption or crashes if the old,
> now-invalid pointers are used.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net-next,v6] net: Implement fault injection forcing skb reallocation
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/12079a59ce52

You are awesome, thank you!
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