From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel•org>
To: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel•com>
Cc: davem@davemloft•net, pabeni@redhat•com, edumazet@google•com,
Alan Brady <alan.brady@intel•com>,
netdev@vger•kernel.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6•org,
dsahern@kernel•org, Gurucharan <gurucharanx.g@intel•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/1] ping: fix ipv6 ping socket flow labels
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 12:49:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220713124930.6d58af50@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220712165608.32790-1-anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 09:56:08 -0700 Tony Nguyen wrote:
> From: Alan Brady <alan.brady@intel•com>
>
> Ping sockets don't appear to make any attempt to preserve flow labels
> created and set by userspace. Instead they are always clobbered by
> autolabels (if enabled) or zero.
>
> This grabs the flowlabel out of the msghdr similar to how rawv6_sendmsg
> does it and moves the memset up so we don't zero it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alan Brady <alan.brady@intel•com>
> Tested-by: Gurucharan <gurucharanx.g@intel•com> (A Contingent worker at Intel)
> Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel•com>
Thanks! Please add a selftest and s/fix/support/ in the subject
otherwise the stable ML bot will think this is a fix, and its more
of a missing feature.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-13 19:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-12 16:56 [PATCH net-next 1/1] ping: fix ipv6 ping socket flow labels Tony Nguyen
2022-07-13 19:49 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2022-07-13 22:48 ` Alan Brady
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