Message ID | 20211129153929.3457-1-Jason@zx2c4.com (mailing list archive) |
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Headers | show |
Series | wireguard/siphash patches for 5.16-rc6 | expand |
On Mon, 29 Nov 2021 10:39:19 -0500 Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > Here's quite a largeish set of stable patches I've had queued up and > testing for a number of months now: > > - Patch (1) squelches a sparse warning by fixing an annotation. > - Patches (2), (3), and (5) are minor improvements and fixes to the > test suite. > - Patch (4) is part of a tree-wide cleanup to have module-specific > init and exit functions. > - Patch (6) fixes a an issue with dangling dst references, by having a > function to release references immediately rather than deferring, > and adds an associated test case to prevent this from regressing. > - Patches (7) and (8) help mitigate somewhat a potential DoS on the > ingress path due to the use of skb_list's locking hitting contention > on multiple cores by switching to using a ring buffer and dropping > packets on contention rather than locking up another core spinning. > - Patch (9) switches kvzalloc to kvcalloc for better form. > - Patch (10) fixes alignment traps in siphash with clang-13 (and maybe > other compilers) on armv6, by switching to using the unaligned > functions by default instead of the aligned functions by default. Typo in the subject, right? No particular connection to -rc6 here? Just checking.
On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 1:17 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Nov 2021 10:39:19 -0500 Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > > Here's quite a largeish set of stable patches I've had queued up and > > testing for a number of months now: > > > > - Patch (1) squelches a sparse warning by fixing an annotation. > > - Patches (2), (3), and (5) are minor improvements and fixes to the > > test suite. > > - Patch (4) is part of a tree-wide cleanup to have module-specific > > init and exit functions. > > - Patch (6) fixes a an issue with dangling dst references, by having a > > function to release references immediately rather than deferring, > > and adds an associated test case to prevent this from regressing. > > - Patches (7) and (8) help mitigate somewhat a potential DoS on the > > ingress path due to the use of skb_list's locking hitting contention > > on multiple cores by switching to using a ring buffer and dropping > > packets on contention rather than locking up another core spinning. > > - Patch (9) switches kvzalloc to kvcalloc for better form. > > - Patch (10) fixes alignment traps in siphash with clang-13 (and maybe > > other compilers) on armv6, by switching to using the unaligned > > functions by default instead of the aligned functions by default. > > Typo in the subject, right? No particular connection to -rc6 here? > Just checking. I definitely meant to type 5.16-rc4, yes, sorry. Noticed this after it was too late.