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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3 XFRM]: Fix invalid key for lookup of cached bundles
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 02:41:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <422BB14A.5030302@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050307012458.GA4335@gondor.apana.org.au>

Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 01:34:24PM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> 
>>How about this one ? It keeps the DST_XFRM_TUNNEL flag and sets it on
>>the first xfrm_dst in a bundle. I know it doesn't really belong there,
> 
> 
> Actually, why do we need to treat tunnel mode differently here?
> In other words, why not just do the mark/tos checks unconditionally.
> 
> Forwarded packets don't get a proper tos/mark setting for IPsec
> but that's a bug in itself.

Mainly to avoid excessive long lists of cached bundles in tunnel
mode. The use of a single list for the cache is questionable, but
the patch was supposed to fix a different issue. Restricting use
of tos/mark to transport mode avoids having exploding lists that
are easily remotely triggerable.

Regards
Patrick

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-07  1:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-05 13:59 [PATCH 3/3 XFRM]: Fix invalid key for lookup of cached bundles Patrick McHardy
2005-03-06 10:29 ` Herbert Xu
2005-03-06 10:54   ` Patrick McHardy
2005-03-06 12:34   ` Patrick McHardy
2005-03-06 17:55     ` Patrick McHardy
2005-03-07  1:24     ` Herbert Xu
2005-03-07  1:41       ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2005-03-07  1:43         ` Herbert Xu
2005-03-07  1:55           ` Patrick McHardy
2005-03-07  1:59             ` Herbert Xu
2005-03-07  2:30               ` Patrick McHardy
2005-03-07  2:57                 ` Herbert Xu
2005-03-07  3:11                   ` Patrick McHardy
2005-03-15  5:51                     ` David S. Miller
2005-03-15  6:01                       ` Herbert Xu
2005-03-15  6:14                         ` David S. Miller

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