netdev - Re: [PATCH] use xfrm direction when lookup policy

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Message-Id: <20130319.103536.2293402411730251000.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:35:36 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	baker.kernel@...il.com
Cc:	steffen.klassert@...unet.com, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	baker.zhang@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] use xfrm direction when lookup policy

From: Baker Zhang <baker.kernel@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 22:24:30 +0800

> because xfrm policy direction has same value with corresponding
> flow direction, so this problem is covered.
> 
> In xfrm_lookup and __xfrm_policy_check, flow_cache_lookup is used to
> accelerate the lookup.
> 
> Flow direction is given to flow_cache_lookup by policy_to_flow_dir.
> 
> When the flow cache is mismatched, callback 'resolver' is called.
> 
> 'resolver' requires xfrm direction,
> so convert direction back to xfrm direction.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Baker Zhang <baker.zhang@...il.com>

Since this is a cleanup and doesn't really fix a bug, I've applied
this to net-next.

Thanks.
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