[ovs-dev] [PATCH branch-2.5] flow: Support extra padding length.
Ilya Maximets
i.maximets at ovn.org
Wed Feb 10 19:51:22 UTC 2021
On 2/10/21 8:38 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 03:39:46PM +0100, Ilya Maximets wrote:
>> From: Flavio Leitner <fbl at sysclose.org>
>>
>> Although not required, padding can be optionally added until
>> the packet length is MTU bytes. A packet with extra padding
>> currently fails sanity checks.
>
> I think that, as much as anything else, this vulnerability shows that
> OVS needs to drop support for older releases. 2.5 is really old.
>
Yep. According to the updated release process we will drop support
for branches 2.5-2.11 with release of 2.15 on Monday. We will have
one last release in the end of February for 2.11 to close some minor
DPDK-related gaps, though.
Best regards, Ilya Maximets.
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