From: Alexander Aring <aring@mojatatu.com>
To: Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-wpan@vger.kernel.org,
linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: netdevice notifier and device private data
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 09:22:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180612132236.wld4mh6ecwcopmfl@x220t> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1326.1528682979@localhost>
Hi,
On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 10:09:39PM -0400, Michael Richardson wrote:
>
> Alexander Aring <aring@mojatatu.com> wrote:
> >> It totally seems like broken behaviour. Maybe it's not even
> >> intentional. Maybe they are just foobar.
>
> > They simple don't know what they doing... somebody thought 6LoWPAN need
> > to be 6LoWPAN, but they actually don't use the 6LoWPAN handling inside
> > the kernel. _Except_ they doing out of tree stuff which I don't
> > believe.
>
> So, it seems like this ioctl() should be disabled, or restricted to cases
> that actually work. hate to break their code, but if it's broken anyway, at
> least the kernel won't crash under them.
>
before we breaking their software I will gentle ask before why they
doing that and I get a good reason then. Then we look more how we deal
with an illegal read/dereference in dev->priv.
I will figure out how I can do that over github.
- Alex
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-12 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-08 17:34 netdevice notifier and device private data Alexander Aring
2018-06-08 18:14 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-06-08 19:41 ` Alexander Aring
2018-06-08 19:37 ` Michael Richardson
2018-06-09 15:29 ` Alexander Aring
2018-06-09 19:01 ` Michael Richardson
2018-06-10 15:39 ` Alexander Aring
2018-06-11 2:09 ` Michael Richardson
2018-06-12 13:22 ` Alexander Aring [this message]
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