netdev - Re: [PATCH 9/11] [IPSEC]: Use the top IPv4 route's peer instead of the bottom

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Date:	Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:34:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, kaber@...sh.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/11] [IPSEC]: Use the top IPv4 route's peer instead of
 the bottom

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:34:17 +0800

> [IPSEC]: Use the top IPv4 route's peer instead of the bottom
> 
> For IPv4 we were using the bottom route's peer instead of the top one.
> This is wrong because the peer is only used by TCP to keep track of
> information about the TCP destination address which certainly does not
> live in the bottom route.
> 
> This patch fixes that which allows us to get rid of the family check
> since the bottom route could be IPv6 while the top one must always
> be IPv4.
> 
> I've also changed the other fields which are IPv4-specific to get the
> info from the top route instead of potentially bogus data from the
> bottom route.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Applied, thanks.
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