Re: [PATCH net-next v3 0/5]: ixgbevf: Allow querying VFs RSS indirection table and key

On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 10:59:04AM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:

On Tue, 2015-01-06 at 20:04 +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:

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Is RSS hash security feature at all? Against what kind of attack? It
looks like some drivers (igb among them) use non random value for the key.

Are you sure ? I thought I toko care of this already.

For igb this was in : 

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=eb31f8493eee1efcc194fdc98df830a503f572f1

Indeed. I looked in a couple of month old tree.

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			Gleb.