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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] xfrm: Indicate xfrm_state offload errors
Date: Mon, 01 May 2017 15:00:20 -0400 (EDT)
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From: <ilant@mellanox.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 16:51:19 +0300

> From: Ilan Tayari <ilant@mellanox.com>
> 
> Current code silently ignores driver errors when configuring
> IPSec offload xfrm_state, and falls back to host-based crypto.
> 
> Fail the xfrm_state creation if the driver has an error, because
> the NIC offloading was explicitly requested by the user program.
> 
> This will communicate back to the user that there was an error.
> 
> Fixes: d77e38e612a0 ("xfrm: Add an IPsec hardware offloading API")
> Signed-off-by: Ilan Tayari <ilant@mellanox.com>

Also applied.

Steffen, I apologize for taking these directly but I really wanted to
make sure these fixes made it into the pull request I plan to send to
Linus for the merge window soon.

Thanks.