Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list netdev); Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:27:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from arnor.apana.org.au (mail@arnor.apana.org.au [203.14.152.115]) by oss.sgi.com (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j0VKR8YO031444 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:27:09 -0800 Received: from gondolin.me.apana.org.au ([192.168.0.6] ident=mail) by arnor.apana.org.au with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Cvi89-00019F-00; Tue, 01 Feb 2005 07:26:41 +1100 Received: from herbert by gondolin.me.apana.org.au with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Cvi7c-0002IY-00; Tue, 01 Feb 2005 07:26:08 +1100 Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 07:26:08 +1100 To: "David S. Miller" Cc: akpm@osdl.org, au@unterluggauer.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 4138] New: ipsec with racoon in transport mode with esp and ah hangs (problem is in xfrm_state_add) Message-ID: <20050131202608.GA8794@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <20050130224404.5f78d28a.akpm@osdl.org> <20050131114004.6c61cdc1.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050131114004.6c61cdc1.davem@davemloft.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i From: Herbert Xu X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/650/Sun Jan 2 19:00:02 2005 clamav-milter version 0.80j on 127.0.0.1 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-archive-position: 1121 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au Precedence: bulk X-list: netdev Content-Length: 672 Lines: 16 On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 11:40:04AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > > Yes, but the loop in the kernel must be prevented nevertheless, > buggy userland or not. I'm not sure that there is a loop. Apart from the word hang in the subject line, the submitter didn't talk about a loop at all. Perhaps he's referring to the loop where the kernel continuously sends acquire messages to racoon but racoon responds by doing duplicate adds thus deleting the larval SAs? -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt