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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] getsockopt() early argument sanity checking
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From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:15:28 +0200

> Others will consider it totally useless because it does not cover
> all cases, but I think it is against the general principle of
> precaution we try to apply in security.

Reading in a value from userspace twice for questionable
"security"  is just bogus.