netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/4] xfrm: cache bundles instead of policies for outgoing flows

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Message-ID: <20100406131117.GA24636@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Tue, 6 Apr 2010 21:11:18 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Timo Teräs <timo.teras@....fi>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] xfrm: cache bundles instead of policies for
	outgoing flows

On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 03:55:13PM +0300, Timo Teräs wrote:
>
> Which also makes me think of another issue. The resolver does
> not get notice if the genid was outdated. So it might end up
> the old policies from bundle after xfrm_policy_insert(). I think
> we should explicitly call ops->delete() in flow_cache_lookup if
> the flow genid was outdated. (I remember actually doing this,
> but also removing it when I was hunting my the one hlist related
> corruption bug.)

Right, that makes sense.

Thanks,
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