netdev - Re: ipcomp regression in 2.6.24

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Date:	Fri, 8 Feb 2008 10:12:25 +0100
From:	"Marco Berizzi" <pupilla@...mail.com>
To:	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ipcomp regression in 2.6.24

David Miller wrote:

> From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:15:33 +1100
>
> > Marco Berizzi <pupilla@...mail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> > With 2.6.24 IPSEC/ESP tunnels to older kernels establish fine,
data
> > >> > flows in both directions, but no data comes out of the tunnel.
> > >> > Needed to disable ipcomp.
> > >
> > > Same problem here: linux 2.6.24 driven by openswan 2.4.11
> > > on Slackware 11.0
> >
> > My bad.  This patch should fix it.
> >
> > [IPCOMP]: Fetch nexthdr before ipch is destroyed
> >
> > When I moved the nexthdr setting out of IPComp I accidently moved
> > the reading of ipch->nexthdr after the decompression.  Unfortunately
> > this means that we'd be reading from a stale ipch pointer which
> > doesn't work very well.
> >
> > This patch moves the reading up so that we get the correct nexthdr
> > value.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
>
> Applied, and queued for -stable, thanks!

Hi David,
I haven't seen this patch in Greg 2.6.24-stable
review message.


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