On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 02:42:30PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> This bug only came up because up the huge change Rusty and Harald did
> to make these modules not access the SKB header data directly, and
> instead to use local on-stack copies and skb_copy_bits().
A change we had to make in order not to assume fully linearized packet
including the tcp header.
I suppose the trivial fix has already been pushed upstream...
Very unfortunate that vendors weren't informed in advance :(
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- Harald Welte <laforge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.netfilter.org/
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architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going
on while IP was being designed." -- Paul Vixie
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