netdev - Re: [patch] af_key: return error if pfkey_xfrm_policy2msg

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Message-Id: <1269448790.4089.34.camel@bigi>
Date:	Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:39:50 -0400
From:	jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
To:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] af_key: return error if pfkey_xfrm_policy2msg_prep()
 fails

On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 19:19 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 09:46:23AM -0400, jamal wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 14:47 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > The original code saved the error value but just returned 0 in the end.
> > 
> > Looks reasonable and harmless. 
> > If you have time - can you try this one test with your patch and see if
> > any strange message shows up when you delete? add a policy on window1,
> > on window2 run ip xfrm mon and then back on window1 delete it and watch
> > the event on window2
> > 
> > ----
> > window2: ip xfrm mon
> > 
> > window1, add:
> > ip xfrm policy add src 172.16.2.0/24 dst 172.16.1.0/24 \
> >         dir fwd ptype main \
> >         tmpl src 192.168.2.100 dst 192.168.1.100 \
> >         proto esp mode tunnel
> > 
> > 
> > window1, delete:
> > ip xfrm pol del src 172.16.2.0/24 dst 172.16.1.0/24 dir fwd
> > ----
> 
> Sure.  I tried that and it looks OK.  
> 

I am really sorry - your patch is pfkey path and the example i gave you
is xfrm based;-< I worry too much, so never mind - the change seems
harmless enough:
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@...atatu.com>


cheers,
jamal

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