Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 0/4] Take care of xfrm policy when checking dst entries

From: Vlad Yasevich <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:14:35 -0400

On 09/17/2012 12:49 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Nicolas Dichtel <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:09:43 +0200
>
>> The goal of these patches is to fix the following problem: a session is
>> established (TCP, SCTP) and after a new policy is inserted. The current
>> code does not recalculate the route, thus the traffic is not encrypted.
>>
>> The patch propose to check flow_cache_genid value when checking a dst
>> entry, which is incremented each time a policy is inserted or deleted.
>>
>> v2: use net->ipv4.rt_genid instead of flow_cache_genid (and thus save a test
>>      in fast path). Also move it to net->rt_genid, to be able to use it for IPv6
>>      too. Note that IPv6 will have one more test in fast path.
>>
>> v3: remove unrelated "#ifdef CONFIG_XFRM" in IPv6 part
>>      bump rt_genid in selinux code (same place than flow_cache_genid)
>>
>> Patches are tested with TCP and SCTP, IPv4 and IPv6.
>
> These patches don't apply cleanly at all.
>
> In the net/ipv4/route.c code we don't initialize the genid to zero,
> we stick a random value there.
>
> And we don't increment it by one on flushes, instead we increment
> it by a random amount.
>
> I wonder what tree these were even against, the differences were
> so great.
>

I think he expected you to take Eric's patch that removed those pieces.

-vlad