netdev - Re: [PATCH] [iproute2/ip] ip segfault with wrong key

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Date:	Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:16:48 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	mmaslano@...hat.com (Marcela Maslanova)
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, shemminger@...l.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [iproute2/ip] ip segfault with wrong key

Marcela Maslanova <mmaslano@...hat.com> wrote:
> 
> Wrong key in "ip xfrm state" command lead to segfault. I thought there 
> could be used only hexadecimal numbers. I'm suggesting attached patch. 
> The example of problem could be seen here: 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449933

I don't see why we should disallow string keys.  Let's treat the
disease instead of chopping off limbs.

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