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 02:55:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <422BB477.3040607@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050307014337.GA4451@gondor.apana.org.au>
Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 02:41:30AM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>>
>>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.
>
>
> That's a different problem. You can already create arbitrarily
> long bundle lists by spoofing src/dst addresses...
But I don't want to make it worse. The number is still restricted by
the scope of the selector, using tos and fwmark makes the worst case
a lot worse.
Regards
Patrick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-07 1:55 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
2005-03-07 1:43 ` Herbert Xu
2005-03-07 1:55 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
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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