netdev - Re: pull request (net-next): ipsec-next 2013-12-19

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Date:	Thu, 19 Dec 2013 18:38:04 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	steffen.klassert@...unet.com
Cc:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pull request (net-next): ipsec-next 2013-12-19

From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 07:36:37 +0100

> 1) Use the user supplied policy index instead of a generated one
>    if present. From Fan Du.
> 
> 2) Make xfrm migration namespace aware. From Fan Du.
> 
> 3) Make the xfrm state and policy locks namespace aware. From Fan Du.
> 
> 4) Remove ancient sleeping when the SA is in acquire state,
>    we now queue packets to the policy instead. This replaces the
>    sleeping code.
> 
> 5) Remove FLOWI_FLAG_CAN_SLEEP. This was used to notify xfrm about the
>    posibility to sleep. The sleeping code is gone, so remove it.
> 
> 6) Check user specified spi for IPComp. Thr spi for IPcomp is only
>    16 bit wide, so check for a valid value. From Fan Du.
> 
> 7) Export verify_userspi_info to check for valid user supplied spi ranges
>    with pfkey and netlink. From Fan Du.
> 
> 8) RFC3173 states that if the total size of a compressed payload and the IPComp
>    header is not smaller than the size of the original payload, the IP datagram
>    must be sent in the original non-compressed form. These packets are dropped
>    by the inbound policy check because they are not transformed. Document the need
>    to set 'level use' for IPcomp to receive such packets anyway. From Fan Du.
> 
> Please pull or let me know if there are problems.

Pulled, thanks a lot.
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