From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753977Ab3JRUcF (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Oct 2013 16:32:05 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:58207 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751013Ab3JRUcD (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Oct 2013 16:32:03 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 16:32:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20131018.163201.1946075086732460816.davem@davemloft.net> To: hannes@stressinduktion.org Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 0/9] Introduce support to lazy initialize mostly static keys From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1381987923-1524-1-git-send-email-hannes@stressinduktion.org> References: <1381987923-1524-1-git-send-email-hannes@stressinduktion.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.5 on Emacs 24.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.1 (shards.monkeyblade.net [0.0.0.0]); Fri, 18 Oct 2013 13:32:03 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Hannes Frederic Sowa Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 07:31:54 +0200 > This series implements support for delaying the initialization of secret > keys, e.g. used for hashing, for as long as possible. This functionality > is implemented by a new macro, net_get_random_bytes. > > I already used it to protect the socket hashes, the syncookie secret > (most important) and the tcp_fastopen secrets. I generally have no problem with this series and like how it improves the secret being input on the ipv6 side. Please address the commit message feedback and respin this series. Thanks.