linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next] xfrm: no-anti-replay protection flag

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Message-ID: <20200530124107.GB7476@arkam>
Date:   Sat, 30 May 2020 14:41:07 +0200
From:   Petr Vaněk <pv@...ello.cz>
To:     Christophe Gouault <christophe.gouault@...nd.com>
Cc:     Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] xfrm: no-anti-replay protection flag

Hi Christophe,

On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 07:11:21PM +0200, Christophe Gouault wrote:
> This patch is useful, however I think you should change the name of
> the option and amend its description:
> the option does not disable anti-replay in output (it can only be
> disabled in input), it allows the output sequence number to wrap, and
> it assumes that the remote peer disabled anti-replay in input.
> 
> So you I suggest you change the name of the option to something like
> XFRM_SA_XFLAG_OSEQ_MAY_WRAP or XFRM_SA_XFLAG_ALLOW_OSEQ_WRAP.

thank you for your suggestions, I changed the patch and sent the second
version.

Petr