From: Antony Antony <antony.antony@secunet.com>
To: Antony Antony <antony.antony@secunet.com>,
Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
<netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Chiachang Wang <chiachangwang@google.com>,
Yan Yan <evitayan@google.com>, <devel@linux-ipsec.org>
Subject: [PATCH ipsec-next v4 0/5] xfrm: XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE_STATE new netlink message
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2026 09:53:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cover.1768811736.git.antony.antony@secunet.com> (raw)
Ther current XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE interface is tightly coupled to policy and
SA migration, and it lacks the information required to reliably migrate
individual SAs. This makes it unsuitable for IKEv2 deployments,
dual-stack setups (IPv4/IPv6), and scenarios where policies are managed
externally (e.g., by other daemons than IKE daemon).
Mandatory SA selector list
The current API requires a non-empty SA selector list, which does not
reflect IKEv2 use case.
A single Child SA may correspond to multiple policies,
and SA discovery already occurs via address and reqid matching. With
dual-stack Child SAs this leads to excessive churn: the current method
would have to be called up to six times (in/out/fwd × v4/v6) on SA,
while the new method only requires two calls.
Selectors lack SPI (and marks)
XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE cannot uniquely identify an SA when multiple SAs share
the same policies (per-CPU SAs, SELinux label-based SAs, etc.). Without
the SPI, the kernel may update the wrong SA instance.
Reqid cannot be changed
Some implementations allocate reqids based on traffic selectors. In
host-to-host or selector-changing scenarios, the reqid must change,
which the current API cannot express.
Because strongSwan and other implementations manage policies
independently of the kernel, an interface that updates only a specific
SA - with complete and unambiguous identification - is required.
XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE_STATE provides that interface. It supports migration
of a single SA via xfrm_usersa_d (including SPI) and we fix
encap removal in this patch set, reqid updates, address changes,
and other SA-specific parameters. It avoids the structural limitations
of XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE and provides a simpler, extensible mechanism for
precise per-SA migration without involving policies.
New migration steps: first install block policy, remove the old policy,
call XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE_STATE for each state, then re-install the
policies and remove the block policy.
Antony Antony (5):
xfrm: add missing __rcu annotation to nlsk
xfrm: remove redundant assignments
xfrm: allow migration from UDP encapsulated to non-encapsulated ESP
xfrm: rename reqid in xfrm_migrate
xfrm: add XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE_STATE for single SA migration
---
include/net/netns/xfrm.h | 2 +-
include/net/xfrm.h | 3 +-
include/uapi/linux/xfrm.h | 11 +++
net/key/af_key.c | 10 +--
net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c | 5 +-
net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c | 34 ++++----
net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 163 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
security/selinux/nlmsgtab.c | 3 +-
8 files changed, 199 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
---
v1->v2: dropped 6/6. That check is already there where the func is called
- merged patch 4/6 and 5/6, to fix use uninitialized value
- fix commit messages
v2->v3: - fix commit message formatting
v3->v4: add patch to fix pre-existing missing __rcu annotation on nlsk
(exposed by sparse when modifying xfrm_user.c)
-antony
next reply other threads:[~2026-01-19 8:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-19 8:53 Antony Antony [this message]
2026-01-19 8:53 ` [PATCH ipsec-next v4 1/5] xfrm: add missing __rcu annotation to nlsk Antony Antony
2026-01-19 8:54 ` [PATCH ipsec-next v4 2/5] xfrm: remove redundant assignments Antony Antony
2026-01-19 8:54 ` [PATCH ipsec-next v4 3/5] xfrm: allow migration from UDP encapsulated to non-encapsulated ESP Antony Antony
2026-01-19 8:54 ` [PATCH ipsec-next v4 4/5] xfrm: rename reqid in xfrm_migrate Antony Antony
2026-01-19 8:54 ` [PATCH ipsec-next v4 5/5] xfrm: add XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE_STATE for single SA migration Antony Antony
2026-01-22 10:33 ` Steffen Klassert
2026-01-22 10:50 ` Steffen Klassert
2026-01-23 5:58 ` [devel-ipsec] " Antony Antony
2026-01-23 8:32 ` Steffen Klassert
2026-01-23 5:41 ` Antony Antony
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