netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/7] [IPSEC]: Move common output code to xfrm

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Date:	Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:17:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] [IPSEC]: Move common output code to xfrm_output

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:29:39 +0800

> [IPSEC]: Move common output code to xfrm_output
> 
> Most of the code in xfrm4_output_one and xfrm6_output_one are identical so
> this patch moves them into a common xfrm_output function which will live
> in net/xfrm.
> 
> In fact this would seem to fix a bug as on IPv4 we never reset the network
> header after a transform which may upset netfilter later on.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Applied.

Could you submit a 2.6.23 version of just the ipv4 fix?
It might be interesting to determine why it was omitted,
perhaps it was an oversight, and it probably predates the
addition of skb_reset_*().
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