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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2019-08-19 21:54:03 +0300 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2019-08-19 21:54:03 +0300 |
| commit | 446bf64b613c4433dac4b15f4eaf326beaad3c8e (patch) | |
| tree | b20b9457234f6f9a5d7464213ef6d10f95f3eed3 /Documentation/networking | |
| parent | 20e79a0a2cfd15b6cfb18119f2e108396be56716 (diff) | |
| parent | 06821504fd47a5e5b641aeeb638a0ae10a216ef8 (diff) | |
| download | linux-446bf64b613c4433dac4b15f4eaf326beaad3c8e.tar.xz | |
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net
Merge conflict of mlx5 resolved using instructions in merge
commit 9566e650bf7fdf58384bb06df634f7531ca3a97e.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/tls-offload.rst | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt | 4 |
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/tls-offload.rst b/Documentation/networking/tls-offload.rst index b70b70dc4524..0dd3f748239f 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/tls-offload.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/tls-offload.rst @@ -506,21 +506,3 @@ Drivers should ignore the changes to TLS the device feature flags. These flags will be acted upon accordingly by the core ``ktls`` code. TLS device feature flags only control adding of new TLS connection offloads, old connections will remain active after flags are cleared. - -Known bugs -========== - -skb_orphan() leaks clear text ------------------------------ - -Currently drivers depend on the :c:member:`sk` member of -:c:type:`struct sk_buff <sk_buff>` to identify segments requiring -encryption. Any operation which removes or does not preserve the socket -association such as :c:func:`skb_orphan` or :c:func:`skb_clone` -will cause the driver to miss the packets and lead to clear text leaks. - -Redirects leak clear text -------------------------- - -In the RX direction, if segment has already been decrypted by the device -and it gets redirected or mirrored - clear text will be transmitted out. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt b/Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt index 949d5dcdd9a3..0104830d5075 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt @@ -204,8 +204,8 @@ Ethernet device, which instead of receiving packets from a physical media, receives them from user space program and instead of sending packets via physical media sends them to the user space program. -Let's say that you configured IPX on the tap0, then whenever -the kernel sends an IPX packet to tap0, it is passed to the application +Let's say that you configured IPv6 on the tap0, then whenever +the kernel sends an IPv6 packet to tap0, it is passed to the application (VTun for example). The application encrypts, compresses and sends it to the other side over TCP or UDP. The application on the other side decompresses and decrypts the data received and writes the packet to the TAP device, |