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From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
To: Fan Du <fan.du@windriver.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	saurabh.mohan@vyatta.com, herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] {ipv4,xfrm}: Introduce xfrm_tunnel_notifier for xfrm tunnel mode callback
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 11:28:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130827092856.GC7660@secunet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <521C0104.2070906@windriver.com>

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 09:29:40AM +0800, Fan Du wrote:
> On 2013年08月27日 04:21, David Miller wrote:
> >
> >I don't understand why VTI doesn't need to propagate a PMTU update via
> >ipv4_update_pmtu().  Why is it different from a real xfrm_tunnel?
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> A IPsec protected packet is first handled by protocol handlers, e.g AH/ESP,
> to check packet authentication or encryption rightness. PMTU update is taken
> care of in this stage by protocol error handler.
> 
> Then the packet is rearranged properly depending on whether it's transport
> mode or tunnel mode packed by mode "input" handler. The VTI handler code
> takes effects in this stage in tunnel mode only. So it neither need propagate
> PMTU, as it has already been done if necessary, nor the VTI handler is
> qualified as a xfrm_tunnel.
> 

I think you are right here, please update your commit message with
the above informations. I'd take this into ipsec-next and update
the the ipv6 vti patch according to your changes if David does not
mind.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-27  9:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-23  6:47 [PATCH net-next] {ipv4,xfrm}: Introduce xfrm_tunnel_notifier for xfrm tunnel mode callback Fan Du
2013-08-26 11:35 ` Steffen Klassert
2013-08-27  1:40   ` Fan Du
2013-08-26 20:21 ` David Miller
2013-08-27  1:29   ` Fan Du
2013-08-27  9:28     ` Steffen Klassert [this message]
2013-08-27 16:23       ` David Miller
2013-08-27  1:52 ` Saurabh Mohan

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