From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
To: Fan Du <fan.du@windriver.com>
Cc: herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au, davem@davemloft.net,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 net-next] xfrm: add LINUX_MIB_XFRMACQUIREERROR statistic counter
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 14:23:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130606122350.GC3109@secunet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1370484954-30023-1-git-send-email-fan.du@windriver.com>
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 10:15:54AM +0800, Fan Du wrote:
> When host ping its peer, ICMP echo request packet triggers IPsec
> policy, then host negotiates SA secret with its peer. After IKE
> installed SA for OUT direction, but before SA for IN direction
> installed, host get ICMP echo reply from its peer. At the time
> being, the SA state for IN direction could be XFRM_STATE_ACQ,
> then the received packet will be dropped after adding
> LINUX_MIB_XFRMINSTATEINVALID statistic.
>
> Adding a LINUX_MIB_XFRMACQUIREERROR statistic counter for such
> scenario when SA in larval state is much clearer for user than
> LINUX_MIB_XFRMINSTATEINVALID which indicates the SA is totally
> bad.
>
> Signed-off-by: Fan Du <fan.du@windriver.com>
Applied to ipsec-next.
Thanks!
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2013-06-06 2:15 [PATCHv3 net-next] xfrm: add LINUX_MIB_XFRMACQUIREERROR statistic counter Fan Du
2013-06-06 12:23 ` Steffen Klassert [this message]
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