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On 8/11/21 8:11 PM, Leonard Crestez wrote:
> On 11.08.2021 16:42, David Ahern wrote:
[..]
>>
>> any proposed simplification needs to be well explained and how it
>> relates to the RFC spec.
> 
> The local_id only exists between userspace and kernel so it's not really
> covered by the RFC.
> 
> There are objections to this and it seems to be unhelpful for userspace
> zo I will replace it with match by binding.
> 
> BTW: another somewhat dubious simplification is that I offloaded the RFC
> requirement to never add overlapping keys to userspace. So if userspace
> adds keys with same recvid that match the same TCP 4-tuple then
> connections will just start failing.
> 
> It's arguably fine to allow userspace misconfiguration to cause failures.

I think it's fine. But worth documenting. Also, keep in mind that
someone in userspace with his funny ideas might start relying on such
behavior in future.

Thanks,
        Dmitry