From: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: dbaryshkov@gmail.com, slapin@ossfans.org,
linux-zigbee-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ieee802154: verify packet size before trying to allocate it
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:18:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1339402702.4999.15.camel@lappy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120610.200443.971015025499077057.davem@davemloft.net>
On Sun, 2012-06-10 at 20:04 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 13:10:19 +0200
>
> > Currently when sending data over datagram, the send function will attempt to
> > allocate any size passed on from the userspace.
> >
> > We should make sure that this size is checked and limited. The maximum size
> > of an IP packet seemed like the safest limit here.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
>
> Why not limit to the device MTU? That's exactly what I suggested
> to you.
That's what I ended up doing in the reply to this mail.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-11 8:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-10 11:10 [PATCH] ieee802154: verify packet size before trying to allocate it Sasha Levin
2012-06-10 11:24 ` Alan Cox
2012-06-10 12:16 ` Sasha Levin
2012-06-10 12:55 ` Jan Ceuleers
2012-06-11 3:04 ` David Miller
2012-06-11 8:18 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
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2012-06-06 21:32 Sasha Levin
2012-06-07 20:10 ` David Miller
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