netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] xfrm4: fix the ports decode of sctp protocol

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Date:	Fri, 3 Jul 2009 11:48:49 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Wei Yongjun <yjwei@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] xfrm4: fix the ports decode of sctp protocol

On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 10:57:23AM +0800, Wei Yongjun wrote:
> The SCTP pushed the skb data above the sctp chunk header, so the check
> of pskb_may_pull(skb, xprth + 4 - skb->data) in _decode_session4() will
> never return 0 because xprth + 4 - skb->data < 0, the ports decode of
> sctp will always fail.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@...fujitsu.com>

Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Longer term I wonder if we can move this stuff into the protocol
code, i.e., before they call xfrm_policy_check.

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