On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 09:28:54PM +0530, Martin Varghese wrote:
> From: Martin Varghese <[email protected]>
>
> The commit fe80536acf83 ("bareudp: Added attribute to enable & disable
> rx metadata collection") breaks the the original(5.7) default behavior of
> bareudp module to collect RX metadadata at the receive. It was added to
> avoid the crash at the kernel neighbour subsytem when packet with metadata
> from bareudp is processed. But it is no more needed as the
> commit 394de110a733 ("net: Added pointer check for
> dst->ops->neigh_lookup in dst_neigh_lookup_skb") solves this crash.
This patch looks like a complete revert of fe80536acf83, but with a
missing chunk (the rx_collect_metadata field in include/net/bareudp.h).
Why not generating this patch with "git revert fe80536acf83", instead
of doing it manually?. That'd make sure that no chunk is forgotten.
> Fixes: fe80536acf83 ("bareudp: Added attribute to enable & disable rx
> metadata collection")
> Signed-off-by: Martin Varghese <[email protected]>
