netdev - Re: xfrm_input() and ->seq oddities

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Date:	Sun, 3 Feb 2008 14:05:16 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: xfrm_input() and ->seq oddities

On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 12:37:19AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
>
> This is still very odd...  Where do you initialize ->seq.input?  What

In xfrm_input.

> guarantees that async call of xfrm_input() will be always preceded by
> at least one non-async one?

OK I admit it isn't pretty.  But the encap_type argument is reused to
indicate async resumption.  That is, if we enter with encap_type < 0,
it means that we're resuming a previous operation and seq.input has
therefore been set by the previous xfrm_input call.

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