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Commit 5461fc0c authored by Dmitry Safonov's avatar Dmitry Safonov Committed by Steffen Klassert
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xfrm/compat: Add 64=>32-bit messages translator



Provide the kernel-to-user translator under XFRM_USER_COMPAT, that
creates for 64-bit xfrm-user message a 32-bit translation and puts it
in skb's frag_list. net/compat.c layer provides MSG_CMSG_COMPAT to
decide if the message should be taken from skb or frag_list.
(used by wext-core which has also an ABI difference)

Kernel sends 64-bit xfrm messages to the userspace for:
- multicast (monitor events)
- netlink dumps

Wire up the translator to xfrm_nlmsg_multicast().

Signed-off-by: default avatarDmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
parent c9e7c76d
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