Re: [BUG] problems with "ip xfrm" on 32-bit userspace with 64-bitkernel

From: Florian Westphal
Date: Thu Oct 21 2010 - 03:51:01 EST


Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We've run into a 32/64 compatibility problem with iproute2. The "ip
> xfrm monitor acquire" command doesn't work properly due to struct size
> mismatches between kernel and userspace.

Yes. See archives for 'xfrm: add x86 CONFIG_COMPAT support'
(http://marc.info/?t=127050655600003&r=1&w=2)

for a discussion on why the patch set to fix this was rejected.
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