From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com
Cc: vyasevich@gmail.com, sri@us.ibm.com, linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sctp: check dst validity after IPsec operations
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:10:19 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120906.141019.129727465932440024.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1346953229-3825-1-git-send-email-nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 13:40:29 -0400
> dst stored in struct sctp_transport needs to be recalculated when ipsec policy
> are updated. We use flow_cache_genid for that.
>
> For example, if a SCTP connection is established and then an IPsec policy is
> set, the old SCTP flow will not be updated and thus will not use the new
> IPsec policy.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
I don't like that SCTP need to perform special DST validation.
The normal DST validation mechanism already in place should be
sufficient.
Otherwise this problem must exist in other protocols too, and
fixing a tree wide issue privately inside of one protocol is
not acceptable.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-06 18:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-06 17:40 [PATCH] sctp: check dst validity after IPsec operations Nicolas Dichtel
2012-09-06 16:04 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-09-06 16:40 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2012-09-06 17:03 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-09-07 12:24 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2012-09-07 12:07 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2012-09-06 18:10 ` David Miller [this message]
2012-09-07 13:47 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2012-09-07 15:57 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 0/2] Take care of xfrm policy when checking dst entries Nicolas Dichtel
2012-09-07 15:57 ` [PATCH 1/2] dst: take into account policy update on check() Nicolas Dichtel
2012-09-07 14:20 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-09-07 14:35 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-07 14:47 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2012-09-07 15:09 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-07 15:13 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2012-09-07 15:21 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-07 18:48 ` David Miller
2012-09-07 18:48 ` David Miller
2012-09-10 12:47 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2012-09-10 13:10 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-10 13:22 ` [PATCH net-next v2] Take care of xfrm policy when checking dst entries Nicolas Dichtel
2012-09-10 13:22 ` [PATCH net-next v2 1/4] netns: move net->ipv4.rt_genid to net->rt_genid Nicolas Dichtel
2012-09-10 13:22 ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/4] xfrm: invalidate dst on policy insertion/deletion Nicolas Dichtel
2012-09-10 14:21 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-09-10 14:56 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2012-09-11 8:09 ` [PATCH net-next v3 0/4] Take care of xfrm policy when checking dst entries Nicolas Dichtel
2012-09-11 8:09 ` [PATCH net-next v3 1/4] netns: move net->ipv4.rt_genid to net->rt_genid Nicolas Dichtel
2012-09-11 8:09 ` [PATCH net-next v3 2/4] xfrm: invalidate dst on policy insertion/deletion Nicolas Dichtel
2012-09-11 8:09 ` [PATCH net-next v3 3/4] ipv6: use net->rt_genid to check dst validity Nicolas Dichtel
2012-09-11 8:09 ` [PATCH net-next v3 4/4] ipv6: use DST_* macro to set obselete field Nicolas Dichtel
2012-09-12 7:40 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-17 16:49 ` [PATCH net-next v3 0/4] Take care of xfrm policy when checking dst entries David Miller
2012-09-17 18:14 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-09-17 18:25 ` David Miller
2012-09-17 19:52 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2012-09-17 19:54 ` David Miller
2012-09-18 20:08 ` David Miller
2012-09-10 13:22 ` [PATCH net-next v2 3/4] ipv6: use net->rt_genid to check dst validity Nicolas Dichtel
2012-09-10 14:29 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-09-10 14:34 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2012-09-10 14:43 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-09-10 14:44 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2012-09-10 13:22 ` [PATCH net-next v2 4/4] ipv6: use DST_* macro to set obselete field Nicolas Dichtel
2012-09-10 14:35 ` [PATCH net-next v2] Take care of xfrm policy when checking dst entries Vlad Yasevich
2012-09-10 14:38 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2012-09-10 17:18 ` David Miller
2012-09-10 17:59 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-09-10 18:01 ` David Miller
2012-09-22 16:49 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-09-07 14:51 ` [PATCH 1/2] dst: take into account policy update on check() Vlad Yasevich
2012-09-07 15:08 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-07 15:57 ` [PATCH 2/2] ipv6: remove rt6i_flow_cache_genid field in rt6_info Nicolas Dichtel
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