netdev - Re: [PATCH] af_packet: account for VLAN when checking packet size

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Date:	Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:01:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	phil@....cc, netdev@...r.kernel.org, johann.baudy@...-log.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] af_packet: account for VLAN when checking packet size

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:03:02 +0200

> If we dont test ETH_P_8021Q protocol here, we allow sending 1504 bytes
> frames for MTU=1500
> 
> Should we really care ?
> 
> If not, just do
> 
> reserve = dev->hard_header_len + VLAN_HLEN;

Thats a good point, I think we need to validate the SKB protocol
field.
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