netdev - Re: [PATCH] netdev: Reset ipv4 flags during bundle creation on interfamily ipsec

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Date:	Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:25:49 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	joakim.koskela@...t.fi
Cc:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	davem@...emloft.net, kaber@...sh.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netdev: Reset ipv4 flags during bundle creation on interfamily ipsec

Joakim Koskela <joakim.koskela@...t.fi> wrote:
>
> I'm not sure I follow. This affects the ipv6 bundling only where the struct 
> (fl_tunnel) has previously been used for ipv6 addresses. Not that we are 
> using the same block for holding the ipv4 info, the tos-value is really 
> undefined before we reset it.

You're right.  But sure the same bug could affect IPv4 as well
if you had a 4-6-4 configuration.  Let me think about this one
a bit more.

Thanks,
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