From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ipv6: don't deliver packets with zero length to raw sockets Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 10:53:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20170421.105332.1898209845543083717.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1492747124-31821-2-git-send-email-jbainbri@redhat.com> <20170421100112.GA4824@bistromath.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: sd@queasysnail.net, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, jmorris@namei.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, kaber@trash.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: jbainbri@redhat.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([184.105.139.130]:36894 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1424205AbdDUS5b (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Apr 2017 14:57:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jamie Bainbridge Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 21:18:00 +1000 > I cannot see the use in delivering a skb with zero bytes after the > network header to a raw socket. Then it cannot be used to look at zero length UDP packets, which are completely legal and used. So we must deliver it.