netdev - Re: [PATCH] Socket filter ancilliary data access for skb->dev->type

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Date:	Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:11:05 +0100
From:	Paul LeoNerd Evans <leonerd@...nerd.org.uk>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Socket filter ancilliary data access for skb->dev->type

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 02:28:46PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> I think we should be adding a check whether skb->dev is non-NULL here
> since filters can also be attached to netlink sockets. The same applies
> to SKF_AD_IFINDEX.

What should the appropriate behaviour be here? Set A to some rogue value
- 0 or -1 seem appropriate? Or, abort the filter entirely (such as in
e.g. divide-by-zero, or invalid memory buffer access)?

Either way that sounds simple enough, I can hack that in and resubmit.

-- 
Paul "LeoNerd" Evans

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