Re: [PATCH xfrm-next v7 6/8] xfrm: speed-up lookup of HW policies

[Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 03:57:43PM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 02:10:02PM +0100, Steffen Klassert wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 03:01:42PM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 01:43:49PM +0100, Steffen Klassert wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 02:02:52PM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > If policy and state do not match here, this means the lookup
> > > > returned the wrong state. The correct state might still sit
> > > > in the database. At this point, you should either have found
> > > > a matching state, or no state at all.
> > > 
> > > I check for "x" because of "x = NULL" above.
> > 
> > This does not change the fact that the lookup returned the wrong state.
> 
> Steffen, but this is exactly why we added this check - to catch wrong
> states and configurations. 

No, you have to adjust the lookup so that this can't happen.
This is not a missconfiguration, The lookup found the wrong
SA, this is a difference.

Use the offload type and dev as a lookup key and don't consider
SAs that don't match this in the lookup.

This is really not too hard to do. The thing that could be a bit
more difficult is that the lookup should be only adjusted when
we really have HW policies installed. Otherwise this affects
even systems that don't use this kind of offload.