netdev - Re: [PATCH net-2.6 1/4] xfrm: Fix replay window size calculation on initialization

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Message-ID: <20110426054107.GB18896@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:41:07 +1000
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6 1/4] xfrm: Fix replay window size calculation
	on initialization

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 07:39:24AM +0200, Steffen Klassert wrote:
> On replay initialization, we compute the size of the replay
> buffer to see if the replay window fits into the buffer.
> This computation lacks a mutliplication by 8 because we need
> the size in bit, not in byte. So we might return an error
> even though the replay window would fit into the buffer.
> This patch fixes this issue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>

Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
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