On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 03:02:20AM +0100, Dmitry Safonov wrote: > It seems to be a valid use case to add xfrm state without > Security Parameter Indexes (SPI) value associated: > ip xfrm state add src $src dst $dst proto $proto mode $mode sel src $src dst > $dst $algo > > The bad thing is that it's currently impossible to get/delete the state > without SPI: __xfrm_state_insert() obviously doesn't add hash for zero > SPI in xfrm.state_byspi, and xfrm_user_state_lookup() will fail as > xfrm_state_lookup() does lookups by hash. > > It also isn't possible to workaround from userspace as > xfrm_id_proto_match() will be always true for ah/esp/comp protos. > > So, don't try looking up by hash if SPI == 0. > > Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klass...@secunet.com> > Cc: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> > Cc: "David S. Miller" <da...@davemloft.net> > Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <d...@arista.com>
A zero SPI is illegal for many IPsec protocols because that value is used for other purposes, e.g., IKE encapsulation. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
