netdev - Re: [IPSEC]: Return EOVERFLOW when output sequence number overflows

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Date:	Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:53:42 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Subject: Re: [IPSEC]: Return EOVERFLOW when output sequence number overflows

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 18:16:20 +1100

> [IPSEC]: Return EOVERFLOW when output sequence number overflows
> 
> Previously we made it an error on the output path if the sequence number
> overflowed.  However we did not set the err variable accordingly.  This
> patch sets err to -EOVERFLOW in that case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Applied.

It seems this was a regression added by Paul's patch in net-2.6.25 and
not something that needs fixing in 2.6.24 and stable?
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