netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/3] xfrm: clamp down spi range for IPComp when allocating spi

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Message-ID: <52A59459.1010102@windriver.com>
Date:	Mon, 9 Dec 2013 17:58:49 +0800
From:	Fan Du <fan.du@...driver.com>
To:	Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
CC:	<davem@...emloft.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/3] xfrm: clamp down spi range for IPComp when
 allocating spi



On 2013年12月09日 17:51, Steffen Klassert wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 05:13:52PM +0800, Fan Du wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2013年12月09日 16:57, Steffen Klassert wrote:
>>>
>>> Instead of doing this check here again, we should implement an equivalent
>>> to verify_userspi_info() for pfkey. Then we are sure to have a valid range
>>> in any case.
>>>
>>
>> How about export an common function in xfrm_state.c to check this corner case?
>> This could be shared by both netlink and pfkey interface, and verify_userspi_info
>> simplified also?
>>
>> int check_ipcomp_spirange(u8 proto, u32 high)
>> {
>> 	if ((proto == IPPROTO_COMP)&&  (high>  0xFFFF))
>> 		return -EINVAL;
>> 	else return 0;
>> }
>> EXPORT_SYMBOL(check_ipcomp_spirange);
>
> I don't think that we should export such a function,
> it is not sufficient.
>
> The netlink interface is ok, it does verify_userspi_info(),
> and the pfkey interface need all the checks done in
> verify_userspi_info() too. In particular the check if
> the minimum spi value is not bigger than the maximum.
>
> So we could either make verify_userspi_info() shared,

Ok, I will try to export verify_userspi_info then.
Is there any comments on patch3/3 before I make v2?

-- 
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--fan
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