netdev - TCP MD5 and socket accept

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Date:	Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:56:57 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	吉藤英明 <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: TCP MD5 and socket accept

It looks like the child socket on accept doesn't inherit the MD5 mappings
from the listening socket.  This leads to the situation where the data
after the initial SYN, ACK gets a MD5 mismatch until the child socket
is updated with setsockopt.

My question was this an intentional part of the initial design?

What will break if tcp_create_openreq_child was fixed to copy md5_info if
present?

This all comes about because right now using Quagga a Linux to Linux
works with TCP MD5. But a Linux to Cisco connection fails if using
TCP MD5.
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