netdev - Re: IPv6 mapped sockets don't work with TCP MD5

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Date:	Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:33:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	agl@...erialviolet.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, shemminger@...tta.com
Subject: Re: IPv6 mapped sockets don't work with TCP MD5

From: "Adam Langley" <agl@...erialviolet.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 15:31:11 -0700

> So I'm basically looking for guidance on how I should write the patch here.
> 
> 1) We could add a calc_hash function pointer to request_sock_ops and
> use that when building SYNACKs. However, request_socks aren't just
> used in TCP.
> 2) We could pass the signature function as an argument to
> tcp_make_synack since we always call it from a v4/v6 specific place
> 
> I'm learning towards the second, but whatever wiser heads suggest I'll
> implement.

I think the second variant is the best too.

Thanks for looking into this Adam.
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