Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Dec 2017 07:21:08 +0100 | From | Steffen Klassert <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH net-next 2/3] xfrm: Fix xfrm_dev_state_add to fail for unsupported HW SA option |
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On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 11:49:29AM +0200, yossefe@mellanox.com wrote: > From: Yossef Efraim <yossefe@mellanox.com> > > xfrm_dev_state_add function returns success for unsupported HW SA options. > Resulting the calling function to create SW SA without corrlating HW SA. > Desipte IPSec device offloading option was chosen. > These not supported HW SA options are hard coded within xfrm_dev_state_add > function. > SW backward compatibility will break if we add any of these option as old > HW will fail with new SW. > > This patch changes the behaviour to return -EINVAL in case unsupported > option is chosen. > Notifying user application regarding failure and not breaking backward > compatibility for newly added HW SA options. > > Signed-off-by: Yossef Efraim <yossefe@mellanox.com>
Also applied to ipsec-next, thanks a lot!
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