netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC v3 0/12] vti4: prepare namespace and interfamily support.

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Date:	Fri, 14 Feb 2014 08:48:01 +0100
From:	Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
To:	Christophe Gouault <christophe.gouault@...nd.com>
CC:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Saurabh Mohan <saurabh.mohan@...tta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v3 0/12] vti4: prepare namespace and interfamily
 support.

On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 12:05:06PM +0100, Christophe Gouault wrote:
> 
> Hi Steffen, and thank you for the patch.
> 
> I tested it within a single netns, then with cross-netns.

Thaks a lot for testing!

> 
> Unfortunately, the inbound/forward policy checks do not take the inbound
> interface into account (__xfrm_decode_session does not properly fill in
> the iif field of the flowi), so in the last global policy check, there
> is no way of differentiating a plaintext packet directly received from
> the network from a plaintext packet that was processed by a vti interface.

Input interface maching is not implemented, the xfrm_selector has
one ifindex field and this is interpreted as the output interface.
But I would not mind if someone would implement input interface maching.

I'll do another, hopefully final, RFC version of the vti4 paches today.
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