netdev - Re: [PATCHv4 net-next-2.6 1/5] XFRM,IPv6: Remove xfrm_spi

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Date:	Mon, 4 Oct 2010 16:33:06 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Arnaud Ebalard <arno@...isbad.org>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 net-next-2.6 1/5] XFRM,IPv6: Remove xfrm_spi_hash()
	dependency on destination address

On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 08:25:07AM +0200, Arnaud Ebalard wrote:
>
> At the moment, Linux XFRM stack includes the address when computing
> the hash to perform state lookup by SPI. This patch changes XFRM
> state hash computation to prevent destination address to be
> used. This will later allow finding states for packets w/ mangled
> destination addresses.

I'm fine with doing this for inbound SAs.  However, I can't see
how we can do this for outbound SAs where the SPI is chosen by
the remote end.

Incidentally, it appears that our hash could do with some
strengthening.

Cheers,
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