netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/4 V2] Ethernet drivers in 3.14-rc3 kernel: fix 3 buffer overflows triggered by hardware devices

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Date:	Tue, 25 Mar 2014 18:17:47 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	grantgrundler@...il.com, David.Laight@...lab.com,
	alon@...vatecore.com, ben@...adent.org.uk, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4 V2] Ethernet drivers in 3.14-rc3 kernel: fix 3
 buffer overflows triggered by hardware devices

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 10:26:21 -0700

> Some hardware have some flaws, not because its malicious but plainly
> buggy, and its reasonable to take some basic checks on common 'mistakes'
> 
> Checking that the NIC doesn't pretend to receive a bigger frame than the
> expected maximum seems reasonable.

That's awesome when we know that the chip in fact has such an errata.
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