netdev - Re: [PATCH] xfrm: Assign the inner mode output function to the dst entry

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Date:	Tue, 10 May 2011 12:28:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	steffen.klassert@...unet.com
Cc:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfrm: Assign the inner mode output function to the dst
 entry

From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 07:36:38 +0200

> As it is, we assign the outer modes output function to the dst entry
> when we create the xfrm bundle. This leads to two problems on interfamily
> scenarios. We might insert ipv4 packets into ip6_fragment when called
> from xfrm6_output. The system crashes if we try to fragment an ipv4
> packet with ip6_fragment. This issue was introduced with git commit
> ad0081e4 (ipv6: Fragment locally generated tunnel-mode IPSec6 packets
> as needed). The second issue is, that we might insert ipv4 packets in
> netfilter6 and vice versa on interfamily scenarios.
> 
> With this patch we assign the inner mode output function to the dst entry
> when we create the xfrm bundle. So xfrm4_output/xfrm6_output from the inner
> mode is used and the right fragmentation and netfilter functions are called.
> We switch then to outer mode with the output_finish functions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>

Applied.
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