Re: [PATCH ipsec] Revert "net: af_key: add check for pfkey_broadcast in function pfkey_process"

[Florian Fainelli]

On 5/23/22 09:01, Michal Kubecek wrote:
> This reverts commit 4dc2a5a8f6754492180741facf2a8787f2c415d7.
>
> A non-zero return value from pfkey_broadcast() does not necessarily mean
> an error occurred as this function returns -ESRCH when no registered
> listener received the message. In particular, a call with
> BROADCAST_PROMISC_ONLY flag and null one_sk argument can never return
> zero so that this commit in fact prevents processing any PF_KEY message.
> One visible effect is that racoon daemon fails to find encryption
> algorithms like aes and refuses to start.
>
> Excluding -ESRCH return value would fix this but it's not obvious that
> we really want to bail out here and most other callers of
> pfkey_broadcast() also ignore the return value. Also, as pointed out by
> Steffen Klassert, PF_KEY is kind of deprecated and newer userspace code
> should use netlink instead so that we should only disturb the code for
> really important fixes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@xxxxxxx>

Maybe you can add a comment above the call such that future tool-based 
patches submissions to give the author a chance to read the comment 
above and ask oneself twice whether this is relevant or not?
--
Florian