From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: saurabh.mohan@vyatta.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv4/ip_vti.c: VTI fix post-decryption forwarding
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:54:30 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121114.185430.1119501564965650216.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121112221731.GA2772@debian-saurabh-64.vyatta.com>
From: Saurabh <saurabh.mohan@vyatta.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:17:31 -0800
>
>
> With the latest kernel there are two things that must be done post decryption
> so that the packet are forwarded.
> 1. Remove the mark from the packet. This will cause the packet to not match
> the ipsec-policy again. However doing this causes the post-decryption check to
> fail also and the packet will get dropped. (cat /proc/net/xfrm_stat).
> 2. Remove the sp association in the skbuff so that no policy check is done on
> the packet for VTI tunnels.
>
> Due to #2 above we must now do a security-policy check in the vti rcv path
> prior to resetting the mark in the skbuff.
>
> Signed-off-by: Saurabh Mohan <saurabh.mohan@vyatta.com>
> Reported-by: Ruben Herold <ruben@puettmann.net>
Please fix your email configuration so that the From: field
properly lists your full name, "Saurabh Mohan" instead of
just plain "Saurabh".
Otherwise the author of the commit will not be set properly
when I apply this.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-14 23:54 UTC|newest]
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2012-11-12 22:17 [PATCH] ipv4/ip_vti.c: VTI fix post-decryption forwarding Saurabh
2012-11-14 23:54 ` David Miller [this message]
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2012-11-15 2:08 Saurabh Mohan
2012-11-15 2:41 ` David Miller
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