From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: william.allen.simpson@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: query: bnx2 and tg3 don't check tcp and/or ip header length validity?
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:49:08 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091014.174908.148829136.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AD66F84.2010703@gmail.com>
This is transmit, and the packets can only come from the Linux
TCP stack, not some external entity.
You're being way too anal here, and adding these checks to
drivers would be just a lot of rediculious bloat.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-15 0:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-14 15:50 query: bnx2 and tg3 don't check tcp and/or ip header length validity? William Allen Simpson
2009-10-14 20:46 ` William Allen Simpson
2009-10-14 21:24 ` Michael Chan
2009-10-15 0:40 ` William Allen Simpson
2009-10-15 0:49 ` David Miller [this message]
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