Re: [PATCH] Revert "net: get rid of an signed integer overflow in ip_idents_reserve()"

From: Shaokun Zhang
Date: Thu Sep 05 2019 - 21:25:42 EST


Hi Eric,

On 2019/7/26 17:58, Eric Dumazet wrote:
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> On 7/26/19 11:17 AM, Shaokun Zhang wrote:
>> From: Yang Guo <guoyang2@xxxxxxxxxx>
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>> There is an significant performance regression with the following
>> commit-id <adb03115f459>
>> ("net: get rid of an signed integer overflow in ip_idents_reserve()").
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> So, you jump around and took ownership of this issue, while some of us
> are already working on it ?
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Any update about this issue?

Thanks,
Shaokun

> Have you first checked that current UBSAN versions will not complain anymore ?
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> A revert adding back the original issue would be silly, performance of
> benchmarks is nice but secondary.
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