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From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
To: Emmanuel Thierry <emmanuel.thierry@telecom-bretagne.eu>
Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>,
	Romain KUNTZ <r.kuntz@ipflavors.com>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] xfrm: fix handling of XFRM policies mark and mask.
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 10:50:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51127BCA.7070900@mojatatu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5D4F2414-B869-46AA-B684-01F9EA88AD03@telecom-bretagne.eu>

On 13-02-06 09:39 AM, Emmanuel Thierry wrote:
>

> I think you misread the example !

I did ;->

> Marks are both 1, masks are different.
>
> This case is more complex than a policy
> with no mark (so mark=0 and mask=0) versus
> a policy with an exact mark (so mark=1 and mask=0xffffffff),
> and i wanted to know if the algorithm would take these kind of cases into account.
>

Aha. I think this is pushing the envelope a little - are there good use 
cases for this?
certainly you could insert with most exact mask first. No such check is 
made at the moment.

cheers,
jamal

  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-06 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-02 17:27 [RFC PATCH] xfrm: fix handling of XFRM policies mark and mask Romain KUNTZ
2013-02-05  8:12 ` Steffen Klassert
2013-02-06 13:14   ` jamal
2013-02-06 13:53     ` Emmanuel Thierry
2013-02-06 14:30       ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2013-02-06 14:39         ` Emmanuel Thierry
2013-02-06 15:50           ` Jamal Hadi Salim [this message]
2013-02-07 10:49       ` Steffen Klassert
2013-02-07 11:08         ` Emmanuel Thierry
2013-02-07 11:16           ` Emmanuel Thierry
2013-02-07 12:54           ` Steffen Klassert
2013-02-08 14:16             ` Emmanuel Thierry
2013-02-11 12:57               ` Romain KUNTZ
2013-02-11 13:04                 ` Steffen Klassert

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