Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] erspan: drop packets with an unknown ERSPAN version

From: Haishuang Yan

Date: Wed Oct 21 2026 - 02:01:42 EST


On Tue, Oct 20, 2026 at 08:15:55PM +0300, Ido Schimmel wrote:
> __iptunnel_pull_header() drops the packet if it can't pull the Ethernet
> header of the encapsulated packet, so there's no memory safety issue
> here. Only reading metadata from the wrong place.

Right, the ETH_HLEN pull covers the bytes the metadata is copied from,
so the commit message was wrong about that. I will fix it.

> Given that this never worked and that there's no security issue here,
> drop these tags and target v2 at net-next when it re-opens.

Will do, thanks.