Hi Ben, On Wed, Apr 27, 2016, at 20:07, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2016-04-27 at 08:59 -0700, Ben Greear wrote: > > On 04/26/2016 04:02 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > > > 3.2.80-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me > > > know. > > I would be careful about this. It causes regressions when sending > > PACKET_SOCKET buffers from user-space to veth devices. > > > > There was a proposed upstream fix for the regression, but it has not gone > > into the tree as far as I know. > > > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg370436.html > [...] > > OK, I'll drop this for now.
The fall out from not having this patch is in my opinion a bigger fallout than not having this patch. This patch fixes silent data corruption vs. the problem Ben Greear is talking about, which might not be that a common usage. What do others think? Bye, Hannes
