Bug 245369

Summary:	=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.27* breaks loading ipsec policy
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Petr Pisar <petr.pisar>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers <kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	wolf31o2
Priority:	High	Keywords:	InVCS
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=920da6923cf03c8a78fbaffa408f8ab37f6abfc1
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Fix from David Miller's net-2.6 tree

Description Petr Pisar 2008-11-03 09:04:40 UTC

Linux 2.6.27 contains one-line bug which disallows IPsec policy loading.

Attempt to load a policy via setkey tools produces error:
setkey: invalid keymsg length

Also racoon daemon is affected. It loops indefinitely and consumes CPU cycles uselessly.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:




Fix has been accepted by David Miller. See the URL link.

Comment 1 Petr Pisar 2008-11-03 09:13:57 UTC

Created attachment 170600 [details, diff]
Fix from David Miller's net-2.6 tree

Copy of http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git;a=commit;h=920da6923cf03c8a78fbaffa408f8ab37f6abfc1

Comment 2 Mike Pagano gentoo-dev

2008-11-17 17:26:21 UTC

Patch included in gentoo-sources-2.6.27-r3 which is now in portage.