netdev - Re: [IPv4] ESP: Discard dummy packets introduced in rfc4303

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Message-Id: <20071210.165357.115406037.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:53:57 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	tgraf@...g.ch
Cc:	davem@...veloft.net, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [IPv4] ESP: Discard dummy packets introduced in rfc4303

From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:17:03 +0100

> RFC4303 introduces dummy packets with a nexthdr value of 59
> to implement traffic confidentiality. Such packets need to
> be dropped silently and the payload may not be attempted to
> be parsed as it consists of random chunk.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>

Applied to net-2.6, since this is more of a bug fix than
anything else.
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