netdev - Re: [PATCH] drivers/net/macvtap: fix error check

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Date:	Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:58:32 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	arnd@...db.de
Cc:	nikai@...ai.net, eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/net/macvtap: fix error check

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 10:59:04 +0100

> On Saturday 05 March 2011, Nicolas Kaiser wrote:
>> 'len' is unsigned of type size_t and can't be negative.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@...ai.net>
> 
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> 
> I think it's harmless: the worst thing that can happen is
> macvtap_alloc_skb() failing with ENOMEM when it gets a
> large argument, but we could have it in -stable just to
> be sure.

I'm just going to add it to net-2.6

I verified that gcc is not generating this test at all
currently, so putting this into -stable is quite pointless.
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