[PATCH net-next 0/6] Remove VLAN.CFI overload

Alexei Starovoitov alexei.starovoitov at gmail.com
Sat Nov 17 14:51:55 AEDT 2018


On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 1:48 PM David Miller <davem at davemloft.net> wrote:
>
> From: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux at rere.qmqm.pl>
> Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2018 19:58:29 +0100
>
> > Fix BPF code/JITs to allow for separate VLAN_PRESENT flag
> > storage and finally move the flag to separate storage in skbuff.
> >
> > This is final step to make CLAN.CFI transparent to core Linux
> > networking stack.
> >
> > An #ifdef is introduced temporarily to mark fragments masking
> > VLAN_TAG_PRESENT. This is removed altogether in the final patch.
>
> Daniel and Alexei, please review.

It was on my todo list.
All reviews got delayed due to LPC.

I guess too late to comment now.
Anyhow I don't see the value in this patch set.
Seems like code churn.

Michal, could you please explain the reasoning?


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