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Date:	Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:06:11 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	paul.moore@...com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-audit@...hat.com,
	selinux@...ho.nsa.gov
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] XFRM: assorted IPsec fixups

From: Paul Moore <paul.moore@...com>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:30:19 -0500

Sorry for not pointing this out sooner:

>  * Convert 'sid' to 'secid'
>    The 'sid' name is specific to SELinux, 'secid' is the common naming
>    convention used by the kernel when refering to tokenized LSM labels
 ...
> diff --git a/include/linux/xfrm.h b/include/linux/xfrm.h
> index b58adc5..f75a337 100644
> --- a/include/linux/xfrm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/xfrm.h
> @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ struct xfrm_sec_ctx {
>  	__u8	ctx_doi;
>  	__u8	ctx_alg;
>  	__u16	ctx_len;
> -	__u32	ctx_sid;
> +	__u32	ctx_secid;
>  	char	ctx_str[0];
>  };
>  

This datastructure has been exported to userspace, so we really can't
member names unless it was added only in 2.6.24 and I don't think it
was.

Correct me if I'm wrong.
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