netdev - Re: [RFC] sctp/tcp: Question -- ICMPv4 length check (not) redundant?

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Date:	Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:36:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	gerrit@....abdn.ac.uk
Cc:	vladislav.yasevich@...com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] sctp/tcp: Question -- ICMPv4 length check (not)
 redundant?

From: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@....abdn.ac.uk>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:03:08 +0100

> If `goto out' is replaced with `goto out_err' in icmp_unreach(),
> it may be worth considering the analogous case in icmpv6_notify():
> 
> 	/* Checkin header including 8 bytes of inner protocol header. */
>         if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, inner_offset+8))
>                 return;
> 
> and the `discard_it' jump label in icmpv6_rcv().

What if the lower protocol doesn't have a header that it
at least 8 bytes? :-)

I think that's yet another reason why the check and counter bump were
originally down in the per-protocol hander.
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