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Re: CVE request: ipv4: Don't do expensive useless work during inetdev destroy

From: Vladis Dronov <vdronov () redhat com>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 12:07:50 -0400 (EDT)

if someone's interested, test was run with latest upstream kernelwith and
without fix fbd40ea0:

upstream latest kernel v4.5-commit-9256d5a3
time to assign 65536 addresses: 5m27s
time to destroy the interface: 57s

upstream latest kernel v4.5-commit-9256d5a3 plus net-next commit fbd40ea0
time to assign 65536 addresses: 5m50s
time to destroy the interface: 2s

Best regards,
Vladis Dronov | Red Hat, Inc. | Product Security Engineer

Current thread:

CVE request: ipv4: Don't do expensive useless work during inetdev destroy Vasily Averin (Mar 15)
- Re: CVE request: ipv4: Don't do expensive useless work during inetdev destroy cve-assign (Mar 15)
- Re: CVE request: ipv4: Don't do expensive useless work during inetdev destroy Vladis Dronov (Mar 16)