netdev - Re: Crashes in xfrm

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Date:	Fri, 9 Apr 2010 16:39:34 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Timo Teräs <timo.teras@....fi>
Cc:	broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Crashes in xfrm_lookup

On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 11:30:49AM +0300, Timo Teräs wrote:
>
> It has been array all along. The only difference was that only
> the first element was used if SUB_POLICY was not defined.

It was an array but prior to your patch it only had a single
element when SUB_POLICY is not defined.  Your patch made it
contain XFRM_POLICY_TYPE_MAX elements unconditionally.

> I still think xfrm_pols_put should do always what the function
> name says it's doing.
>
> If we want to further optimize non-SUB_POLICY stuff, we should
> probably make XFRM_POLICY_TYPE_MAX = 1 and arrange rest of code
> so that the compiler can optimize things properly.

Anyway, the fact is prior to your patch SUB_POLICY had a minimal
impact on people who don't like it (like me), and now its effect
is being forced on everyone.

> But the fact is, that in the new code we need to do conditional
> xfrm_policy_put depending on if we had per-socket or global policy
> which we matched. Thus we either end up with "if (x)" or the
> inline functions for loop's implicit test. Or do you have better
> ideas how to avoid that?

Which particular piece of code are you referring to?

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