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Revision 661697f728d75302e1f661a58db2fcba71d5cbc9 authored by Joy Latten on 13 April 2007, 23:14:35 UTC, committed by David S. Miller on 13 April 2007, 23:14:35 UTC
When sending a security context of 50+ characters in an ACQUIRE 
message, following kernel panic occurred.

kernel BUG in xfrm_send_acquire at net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c:1781!
cpu 0x3: Vector: 700 (Program Check) at [c0000000421bb2e0]
    pc: c00000000033b074: .xfrm_send_acquire+0x240/0x2c8
    lr: c00000000033b014: .xfrm_send_acquire+0x1e0/0x2c8
    sp: c0000000421bb560
   msr: 8000000000029032
  current = 0xc00000000fce8f00
  paca    = 0xc000000000464b00
    pid   = 2303, comm = ping
kernel BUG in xfrm_send_acquire at net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c:1781!
enter ? for help
3:mon> t
[c0000000421bb650] c00000000033538c .km_query+0x6c/0xec
[c0000000421bb6f0] c000000000337374 .xfrm_state_find+0x7f4/0xb88
[c0000000421bb7f0] c000000000332350 .xfrm_tmpl_resolve+0xc4/0x21c
[c0000000421bb8d0] c0000000003326e8 .xfrm_lookup+0x1a0/0x5b0
[c0000000421bba00] c0000000002e6ea0 .ip_route_output_flow+0x88/0xb4
[c0000000421bbaa0] c0000000003106d8 .ip4_datagram_connect+0x218/0x374
[c0000000421bbbd0] c00000000031bc00 .inet_dgram_connect+0xac/0xd4
[c0000000421bbc60] c0000000002b11ac .sys_connect+0xd8/0x120
[c0000000421bbd90] c0000000002d38d0 .compat_sys_socketcall+0xdc/0x214
[c0000000421bbe30] c00000000000869c syscall_exit+0x0/0x40
--- Exception: c00 (System Call) at 0000000007f0ca9c
SP (fc0ef8f0) is in userspace

We are using size of security context from xfrm_policy to determine
how much space to alloc skb and then putting security context from
xfrm_state into skb. Should have been using size of security context 
from xfrm_state to alloc skb. Following fix does that

Signed-off-by: Joy Latten <latten@austin.ibm.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Tip revision: 661697f728d75302e1f661a58db2fcba71d5cbc9 authored by Joy Latten on 13 April 2007, 23:14:35 UTC
[IPSEC] XFRM_USER: kernel panic when large security contexts in ACQUIRE
Tip revision: 661697f
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