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Date:      Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:36:58 +0900
From:      JINMEI Tatuya / =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCP0BMQEMjOkgbKEI=?= <jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp>
To:        blue <susan.lan@zyxel.com.tw>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: infinite loop in esp6_ctlinput()?
Message-ID:  <m11wdote2t.wl%jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp>
In-Reply-To: <46D38543.4020507@zyxel.com.tw>
References:  <46D38543.4020507@zyxel.com.tw>

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At Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:15:31 +0800,
blue <susan.lan@zyxel.com.tw> wrote:

> When receiving a "packet too big" ICMP error message, FreeBSD will call=20
> the ctlinput() function of the upper protocol. If the preceding packet=20
> is an ESP  IPv6 packet, then FreeBSD will call esp6_ctlinput(). In=20
> esp6_ctlinput(), pfctlinput2() will be executed to traverse all possible =

> upper protocols, and call their registered ctlinput() function. However, =

> that would call esp6_ctlinput() again since ESP is one of the upper=20
> protocols! Then an infinite loop occurs!!

=46rom a quick look at the code, there's a slight difference between the
IPSEC (netinet6/esp_input.c) and FAST_IPSEC (netipsec/ipsec_input.c)
implementations.  I suspect the loop doesn't occur at least for the
esp_input.c version.  Did you actually see the loop for both, or are
you guessing from the code?

> After comparing both IPSEC and FAST_IPSEC, the operations are exactly=20
> the same. Is it a bug?

If it actually causes an infinite loop, it's a bug, of course.

					JINMEI, Tatuya
					Communication Platform Lab.
					Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
					jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp



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