netdev - Re: [PATCH] xfrm: Report user triggered expirations against the users socket

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Message-Id: <20120910.153451.799687655699800104.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:34:51 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jhs@...atatu.com
Cc:	ebiederm@...ssion.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, hadi@...erus.ca
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfrm: Report user triggered expirations against the
 users socket

From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2012 07:48:14 -0400

> On 12-09-08 03:17 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> When a policy expiration is triggered from user space the request
>> travles through km_policy_expired and ultimately into
>> xfrm_exp_policy_notify which calls build_polexpire.  build_polexpire
>> uses the netlink port passed to km_policy_expired as the source port
>> for
>> the netlink message it builds.
>>
>> When a state expiration is triggered from user space the request
>> travles
>> through km_state_expired and ultimately into xfrm_exp_state_notify
>> which
>> calls build_expire.  build_expire uses the netlink port passed to
>> km_state_expired as the source port for the netlink message it builds.
>>
>> Pass nlh->nlmsg_pid from the user generated netlink message that
>> requested the expiration to km_policy_expired and km_state_expired
>> instead of current->pid which is not a netlink port number.
>>
>> Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@...erus.ca>
>> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
>>
> 
> I suppose.
> Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>

Applied to net-next, thanks.
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