[strongSwan] incorrect notification data for critical invalid payload type

gowrishankar gowrishankar.m at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Sat Sep 29 07:06:34 CEST 2012


Hi Tobias,

On Saturday 29 September 2012 02:04 AM, Tobias Brunner wrote:
> Hi Gowri,
>
>> Here, this payload is of 9 bytes as payload length also mentions
>> correctly. But, my doubt is on notification data which is 2D.
>> It is always 2D even if I set notification data on sending node (say 01).
> This value has nothing to do with the notification data, but with the
> payload type of the unsupported payload.  In your case it should be 01,
> as can be seen here:

I learnt this now.
>> Sep 28 07:08:16 16[ENC] parsing (1) payload, 178 bytes left
> When starting to parse the unknown payload the type is just printed as
> number.  So you are right the value (2D) is incorrect.  The attached
> patch and [1] should fix this issue for 4.6.4 and 5.0.x, respectively.
> The problem was that the UNSUPPORTED_CRITICAL_PAYLOAD notify would
> always contain the payload type of the last payload in the message (in
> your case TSr) instead of the actually unsupported critical payload.

I had a look at this code now. Yes, your fix solves this problem.
Thanks both of you for your attention on here.

Regards,
Gowri Shankar

> Regards,
> Tobias
>
> [1] http://git.strongswan.org/?p=strongswan.git;a=commitdiff;h=48651d8d
>





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