netdev - Re: xfrm: Return error on unknown switch in init

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Date:   Fri, 5 Jan 2018 09:32:47 +0100
From:   Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
To:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
CC:     <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: xfrm: Return error on unknown switch in init_state

On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 10:21:04PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Currently esp will happily create an xfrm state with an unknown
> encap type for IPv4 or an unknown mode for IPv6, without setting
> the necessary state parameters.  This patch fixes it by returning
> -EINVAL.

Looks like we catch the unknown mode in __xfrm_init_state().
But in any case, if we want to return -EINVAL on unknown mode,
we should do it for IPv6 and for IPv4.