[ovs-dev] [PATCH branch-2.5] flow: Support extra padding length.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 08:51:22PM +0100, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> 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.

I haven't been keeping up well and didn't realize that that was
happening.  Fantastic!