Re: [PATCH v4 3/5] net/tcp: Disable TCP-MD5 static key on tcp_md5sig_info destruction

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Mon Nov 21 2022 - 15:41:58 EST


On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 20:31:38 +0000 Dmitry Safonov wrote:
> > Maybe it wouldn't be
> > the worst move to provide a sk_rcu_dereference() or rcu_dereference_sk()
> > or some such wrapper.
> >
> > More importantly tho - was the merging part for this patches discussed?
> > They don't apply to net-next.
>
> They apply over linux-next as there's a change [1] in
> linux-tip/locking/core on which the patches set based.
>
> Could the way forward be through linux-tip tree, or that might create
> net conflicts?

Dunno from memory, too much happens in these files :S

Could you cherry-pick [1] onto net-next and see if

git am --no-3way patches/*

goes thru cleanly? If so no objections for the patches to go via tip,
we're close enough to the merge window.

> I'll send v5 with the trivial change to rcu_dereference_protected()
> mentioned above.