netdev - Re: [PATCH 12/24] [IPSEC]: Forbid BEET + ipcomp for now

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Date:	Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:39:18 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/24] [IPSEC]: Forbid BEET + ipcomp for now

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:08:28 +0800

> [IPSEC]: Forbid BEET + ipcomp for now
> 
> While BEET can theoretically work with IPComp the current code can't do that
> because it tries to construct a BEET mode tunnel type which doesn't (and
> cannot) exist.  In fact as it is it won't even attach a tunnel object at
> all for BEET which is bogus.
> 
> To support this fully we'd also need to change the policy checks on input
> to recognise a plain tunnel as a legal variant of an optional BEET transform.
> 
> This patch simply fails such constructions for now.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Applied to net-2.6.25
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