linux-kernel - Regression in 4.16-rc7

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Date:   Wed, 28 Mar 2018 22:26:00 +0000
From:   Derek Robson <robsonde@...il.com>
To:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>,
        ben@...adent.org.uk
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Regression in 4.16-rc7 - ipsec vpn broken

The ipsec VPN is broken in 4.16-rc7 and seems to have been broken in all of 4.15

connecting from an iphone seems to give a timeout.

A bisect brings me to this commit as the one that is the issue.

commit: acf568ee859f098279eadf551612f103afdacb4e  (xfrm: Reinject
transport-mode packets through tasklet)

Reverting commit acf568ee859f098279eadf551612f103afdacb4e against
4.16-rc7 causes the VPN to function again.