From: Mahesh Bandewar <mahe...@google.com> Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2019 14:38:43 -0700
... > The idea here is to not alter the data-path with additional > locks or smb()/rmb() barriers to avoid racy assignments but > to create a new device that has really low MTU that has > .ndo_start_xmit essentially a kfree_skb(). Make use of this > device instead of 'lo' when marking the dst dead. > > First patch implements the blackhole device and second > patch uses it in IPv4 and IPv6 stack while the third patch > is the self test that ensures the sanity of this device. ... Series applied to net-next, thanks.
