netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] xfrm: Fix inter family IPsec tunnel handling again

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Date:	Wed, 9 Jul 2008 16:24:18 +0200
From:	Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, kaber@...sh.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, klassert@...hematik.tu-chemnitz.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] xfrm: Fix inter family IPsec tunnel handling again

On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 06:40:22PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> 
> I discussed this with Miyazawa-san earlier in the year.  In order
> to maintain backwards compatibility, the use of AF_UNSPEC needs to
> be combined with an SA flag.  So let's create a new flag that can
> be set by the applications which needs the AF_UNSPEC behaviour.
> 

Just to get you right, do you mean something like the patch below?
With this and a patched iproute2 I've got the inter family tunnels running.

Steffen

---
 include/linux/xfrm.h |    1 +
 net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c |    3 +--
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/xfrm.h b/include/linux/xfrm.h
index 2ca6bae..fb0c215 100644
--- a/include/linux/xfrm.h
+++ b/include/linux/xfrm.h
@@ -339,6 +339,7 @@ struct xfrm_usersa_info {
 #define XFRM_STATE_NOPMTUDISC	4
 #define XFRM_STATE_WILDRECV	8
 #define XFRM_STATE_ICMP		16
+#define XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC	32
 };
 
 struct xfrm_usersa_id {
diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
index b976d9e..04c4150 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
@@ -277,9 +277,8 @@ static void copy_from_user_state(struct xfrm_state *x, struct xfrm_usersa_info *
 	memcpy(&x->props.saddr, &p->saddr, sizeof(x->props.saddr));
 	x->props.flags = p->flags;
 
-	if (!x->sel.family)
+	if (!x->sel.family && !(p->flags & XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC))
 		x->sel.family = p->family;
-
 }
 
 /*
-- 
1.5.3

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