From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: martin@strongswan.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] xfrm: Accept XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC SAs on IPv4/IPv6 only hosts
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:38:49 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081203.153849.98369998.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1227629406.21037.193.camel@martin>
From: Martin Willi <martin@strongswan.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:10:06 +0100
> Installing SAs using the XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC fails on hosts with
> support for one address family only. This patch accepts such SAs, even
> if the processing of not supported packets will fail.
>
> Signed-off-by: Martin Willi <martin@strongswan.org>
>
> ---
> For me the meaning of that flag is not really clear. If it means
> "I-want-to-run-v6-in-v4-or-vice-versa" then the current behavior
> (reject SA) is probably ok.
> However, in my understanding ("accept-any-inner-address-family"), the
> kernel should accept such SAs. Otherwise userspace has to query the
> supported address families.
Ok, your interpretation works for me, I've applied this to
net-next-2.6, thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-03 23:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-25 16:10 [RFC PATCH] xfrm: Accept XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC SAs on IPv4/IPv6 only hosts Martin Willi
2008-12-02 9:49 ` Martin Willi
2008-12-02 23:07 ` David Miller
2008-12-03 23:38 ` David Miller [this message]
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