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From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind•com>
To: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google•com>, David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: mahesh@bandewar•net, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google•com>,
	linux-netdev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH next v2 0/7] Introduce l3_dev pointer for L3 processing
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 09:47:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56EA6F33.6050603@6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF2d9jgqAqUxN0HSTUguQyf6m62wDWizTH4bQ+Hz1xxte-=kaQ@mail.gmail.com>

Le 14/03/2016 18:57, Mahesh Bandewar a écrit :
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 8:53 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft•net> wrote:
[snip]
>> Furthermore, when you walk across the ns boundary, that old device has
>> to disappear.  That's why that is the device assigned to skb->dev.
>>
> The layer boundaries are not that well maintained. We do check for the xfrm
> policies in L4 and expect the skb->dev pointing to the L3 device. So unless we
> have a way to derive a L3 dev from skb->dev, I don't think xfrm will
> work. Unless
> some Xfrm-expert asserts that this is not needed.
Adding a hook "at the right place" to do the switch is probably the better way.
For xfrm, you will need to handle it in this hook or rearrange things.
I don't think that a quick and easy solution will be possible.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-17  8:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-09 21:49 [PATCH next v2 0/7] Introduce l3_dev pointer for L3 processing Mahesh Bandewar
2016-03-10  9:47 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2016-03-10 21:29   ` Cong Wang
2016-03-14  0:01     ` Mahesh Bandewar
2016-03-14 18:13       ` Cong Wang
2016-03-13 23:44   ` Mahesh Bandewar
2016-03-14  1:50 ` David Miller
2016-03-14  2:29   ` Mahesh Bandewar
2016-03-14  3:53     ` David Miller
2016-03-14 17:57       ` Mahesh Bandewar
2016-03-17  8:47         ` Nicolas Dichtel [this message]
2016-03-14 18:15       ` Cong Wang

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