From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <ja...@zx2c4.com> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 19:06:17 -0600
> Hans reported that packets injected by a correct-looking and trivial > libpcap-based program were not being accepted by wireguard. In > investigating that, I noticed that a few devices weren't properly > handling AF_PACKET-injected packets, and so this series introduces a bit > of shared infrastructure to support that. ... > This patchset addresses the issue by first adding a layer 3 header parse > function, much akin to the existing one for layer 2 packets, and then > adds a shared header_ops structure that, also much akin to the existing > one for layer 2 packets. Then it wires it up to a few immediate places > that stuck out as requiring it, and does a bit of cleanup. > > This patchset seems like it's fixing real bugs, so it might be > appropriate for stable. But they're also very old bugs, so if you'd > rather not backport to stable, that'd make sense to me too. Series applied, thanks Jason. I think for now I'll defer on a -stable submission for this work. But in the future maybe we can reconsider. Thanks.
