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From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GENERIC HDLC LAYER] Messages of a hdlc device
Date: 16 Jul 2002 16:06:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ptxnbwdb.fsf@defiant.pm.waw.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020716135818.GB1231@conectiva.com.br>

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br> writes:

> This is becoming a FAQ... see net/core/dev.c, line 907 on 2.5:
> 
>     /* skb->nh should be correctly
>        set by sender, so that the second statement is
>        just protection against buggy protocols.
>      */
>     skb2->mac.raw = skb2->data;
> 
>     if (skb2->nh.raw < skb2->data || skb2->nh.raw > skb2->tail) {
>             if (net_ratelimit())
>                     printk(KERN_DEBUG "protocol %04x is buggy, dev %s\n",
> 			   skb2->protocol, dev->name);
>             skb2->nh.raw = skb2->data;
>     }

Sure I know thats it, but I remember checking the code which resulted
in nothing. Don't remember details, so I'll look at it again.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
Network Administrator

  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-16 18:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-15 14:11 [GENERIC HDLC LAYER] Messages of a hdlc device henrique
2002-07-16 12:11 ` henrique
2002-07-16 13:52   ` Krzysztof Halasa
2002-07-16 13:10 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2002-07-16 13:58   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-07-16 14:06     ` Krzysztof Halasa [this message]
2002-07-16 15:48     ` Bob Dunlop
2002-07-16 10:56       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-08-30 14:19 pavel

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