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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v2 00/10] Low-level Ethernet debugging features.
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:09:48 +0100
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Le vendredi 10 f=C3=A9vrier 2012 =C3=A0 14:51 +0100, Eric Dumazet a =C3=
=A9crit :

> 2) As is, we can leak kernel memory content to wire since we dont
> initialize the padding data.
>=20
>=20

=46alse alarm, this is properly handled by de620_write_block( ... , pad=
);

Other drivers do :

	if (skb->len < ETH_ZLEN) {
		if (skb_padto(skb, ETH_ZLEN))
			goto out;
	}