On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 4:08 PM Xie He <xie.he.0...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 9:30 AM Willem de Bruijn > <willemdebruijn.ker...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <will...@google.com> > > Thanks for your ack! > > > Should this go to net if a bugfix though? > > Yes, this should theoretically be a bug fix. But I didn't think this > was an important fix, because af_packet.c already had workarounds for > this issue for all drivers that didn't have header_ops. We can > separate this patch to make it go to "net" though, but I'm afraid that > this will cause merging conflicts between "net" and "net-next".
Yes, it might require holding off the other patches until net is merged into net-next. Packet sockets are likely not the only way these packets are received? It changes mac_len as computed in __netif_receive_skb_core. If there is no real bug that is fixed, net-next is fine.
