On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Venkat Yekkirala wrote:

> -             if (xfrm_policy_match(pol, fl, type, family, dir)) {
> +             err = xfrm_policy_match(pol, fl, type, family, dir);
> +             if (err) {
> +                     if (err == -ESRCH)
> +                             continue;
> +                     else {
> +                             ret = ERR_PTR(err);
> +                             goto fail;
> +                     }
> +             } else {

Semantics issue: if the exact policy match fails with -EACCESS, should we 
then try an inexact match before failing?

>  #ifdef CONFIG_XFRM_SUB_POLICY
>       pol = xfrm_policy_lookup_bytype(XFRM_POLICY_TYPE_SUB, fl, family, dir);
> -     if (pol)
> +     if (IS_ERR(pol)) {
> +             err = PTR_ERR(pol);
> +             pol = NULL;
> +     }
> +     if (pol || err)
>               goto end;

Similarly, if the sub-policy lookup returns -EACCESS, should we then try a 
main policy lookup before failing?

I would think yes to both.

Opinions?


- James
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James Morris
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