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Message-Id: <20090812.211835.120888237.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:18:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	joamaki@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix xfrm hash collisions by changing
 __xfrm4_daddr_saddr_hash to hash addresses with addition

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:11:15 +1000

> Some IPsec applications use a policy that spawns one SA per
> src/dst address pair.  In that case, even an entity that is
> not on the IPsec side would be able to spawn SAs with the intent
> of causing collisions.  It simply needs to send packets through
> the IPsec gateway with the appropriate destination addresses.

Ok, all good points.  We need to do something about this.

So probably we need to eat jhash after all.

Resistence is futile, sigh :-)
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