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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: query: bnx2 and tg3 don't check tcp and/or ip header length
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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:49:08 -0700 (PDT)
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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.