| To: | rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rusty Russell) |
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| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Minor bug. |
| From: | kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx |
| Date: | Wed, 14 Mar 2001 22:40:14 +0300 (MSK) |
| Cc: | netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx |
| In-reply-to: | <m14d8rK-001PJpC@mozart> from "Rusty Russell" at Mar 14, 1 02:15:01 pm |
| Sender: | owner-netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx |
Hello! > skb will not crash the machine, but maybe one day it will. It will not. Safe access to tail octets is critical for parsing and allows to avoids lots of useless tests (sort of this one), so that we are not going to lose this property. > Just reading the code while on holidays... BTW you read wrong code. This place does not exist in this form more. New variant is more sensitive (and, hence, more paranoid) to such things. Alexey |
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