netdev - Re: [PATCH ipsec-next v11 0/4] xfrm: Introduce direction attribute for SA

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Message-ID: <20240422060538.466f8232@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 06:05:38 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Antony Antony <antony.antony@...unet.com>
Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>, Herbert Xu
 <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, "David S. Miller"
 <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni
 <pabeni@...hat.com>, <devel@...ux-ipsec.org>, Leon Romanovsky
 <leon@...nel.org>, Eyal Birger <eyal.birger@...il.com>, Nicolas Dichtel
 <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>, Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH ipsec-next v11 0/4] xfrm: Introduce direction attribute
 for SA

On Mon, 22 Apr 2024 00:23:58 +0200 Antony Antony wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Inspired by the upcoming IP-TFS patch set, and confusions experienced in
> the past due to lack of direction attribute on SAs, add a new direction
> "dir" attribute. It aims to streamline the SA configuration process and
> enhance the clarity of existing SA attributes.
> 
> This patch set introduces the 'dir' attribute to SA, aka xfrm_state,
> ('in' for input or 'out' for output). Alsp add validations of existing
> direction-specific SA attributes during configuration and in the data
> path lookup.
> 
> This change would not affect any existing use case or way of configuring
> SA. You will notice improvements when the new 'dir' attribute is set.

This breaks the xfrm_policy.sh selftests.
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