From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:43:04 +0800

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> [IPSEC]: Fix catch-22 with algorithm IDs above 31
> 
> As it stands it's impossible to use any authentication algorithms
> with an ID above 31 portably.  It just happens to work on x86 but
> fails miserably on ppc64.
> 
> The reason is that we're using a bit mask to check the algorithm
> ID but the mask is only 32 bits wide.
> 
> After looking at how this is used in the field, I have concluded
> that in the long term we should phase out state matching by IDs
> because this is made superfluous by the reqid feature.  For current
> applications, the best solution IMHO is to allow all algorithms when
> the bit masks are all ~0.
> 
> The following patch does exactly that.
> 
> This bug was identified by IBM when testing on the ppc64 platform
> using the NULL authentication algorithm which has an ID of 251.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

Applied, and I'll queue up for -stable, thanks Herbert!

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> diff --git a/include/linux/xfrm.h b/include/linux/xfrm.h
> diff --git a/include/net/xfrm.h b/include/net/xfrm.h

Please update your GIT index :-)
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