On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 04:40:44PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> This is an old bugbear of mine:
> 
> https://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg03894.html
> 
> By crafting special packets, it is possible to cause recursion
> in our kernel when processing transport-mode packets at levels
> that are only limited by packet size.
> 
> The easiest one is with DNAT, but an even worse one is where
> UDP encapsulation is used in which case you just have to insert
> an UDP encapsulation header in between each level of recursion.
> 
> This patch avoids this problem by reinjecting tranport-mode packets
> through a tasklet.
> 
> Fixes: b05e106698d9 ("[IPV4/6]: Netfilter IPsec input hooks")
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au>

Applied to the ipsec tree, thanks Herbert!

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