Re: [GIT] Networking

David Miller
2010-10-31T13:42:23Z

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 10:19:07 +0100

> On Sat, 2010-10-30 at 18:32 -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> Last pull request before 2.6.37-rc1, I really wanted to get your
>> sendto/recvfrom patch in here as well as the RDS fixes.
>>
>> I did a bunch of tests with the various I/O calls using different
>> lengths, like 10, (2^31 - 1), 2^31, 2^32, and larger on 64-bit and it
>> all seems to be doing the right thing at least with TCP and UDP.
> [...]
>> 7) RDS fixes from you and Andy Grover.
> [...]
>
> Aren't the generic length limiting changes (8acfe46 and 253eacc) also
> supposed to cover the overflow issues with TIPC? Or are those still
> unfixed?

Yes, the TIPC issues should be cured by those generic networking changes.