netdev - Re: [PATCH]IPv6:remove duplicate check of optlen when setsockopt with IPV6

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Date:	Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:34:03 +0800
From:	Yang Hongyang <yanghy@...fujitsu.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]IPv6:remove duplicate check of optlen when setsockopt
 with IPV6_PKTINFO option

David Miller wrote:
> From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:48:56 +1100
> 
>> Yang Hongyang <yanghy@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
>>> If optval==NULL, what we should return?EINVAL or EFAULT?
>>> If it is EINVAL,then we should check it .otherwise it's the job of 
>>> copy_from_user
>> I think EFAULT is fine.  We return that elsewhere as well.
> 
> Actually, we return EINVAL just a few lines above this code
> block for some other socket option cases when optval==NULL.
> 
> So for consistency I'm applying Yang's original patch to
> net-next-2.6

Dave,there are some of the code elsewhere return EFAULT when
optval=NULL,I will post a patch to fix them:)

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 


-- 
Regards
Yang Hongyang
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