[Bloat] New OpenWrt release fixing several dnsmasq CVEs

[Toke Høiland-Jørgensen]

Jonathan Foulkes <jf at jonathanfoulkes.com> writes:

> I installed the updated package on a 19.07.4 box running cake, and QoS performance went down the tubes.
> Last night it locked up completely while attempting to stream.
>
> See the PingPlots others have posted to this forum thread, mine look similar, went from constant sub 50ms to very spiky, then some loss, loss increasing, and if high traffic, lock-up.
> https://forum.openwrt.org/t/security-advisory-2021-01-19-1-dnsmasq-multiple-vulnerabilities/85903/39
>
> load is low, sirq is low, so box does not seem stressed.
>
> Any reason Cake would be sensitive to a dnsmasq bug?

No, not really. I mean, dnsmasq could be sending some traffic that
interferes with stuff? Or it could be a kernel regression - the release
did bump the kernel version as well...

-Toke