netdev - RE: Revert 462fb2af9788a82a534f8184abfde31574e1cfa0 (bridge : Sanitize skb before it enters the IP stack)

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Date:	Tue, 27 May 2014 08:55:12 +0000
From:	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:	'David Newall' <davidn@...idnewall.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	"bdschuym@...dora.be" <bdschuym@...dora.be>,
	"fw@...len.de" <fw@...len.de>,
	"stephen@...workplumber.org" <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org" <netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org" 
	<bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	"bsd@...hat.com" <bsd@...hat.com>,
	"vyasevich@...il.com" <vyasevich@...il.com>
Subject: RE: Revert 462fb2af9788a82a534f8184abfde31574e1cfa0 (bridge :
 Sanitize skb before it enters the IP stack)

From: David Newall
> On 25/05/14 03:13, David Miller wrote:
> > This patch was substantially corrupted by your email client.
> 
> We should be sending these things as mime attachments.  Having to put
> patches inline is brittle, absurd and a waste of everyone's time.  Is
> there actually anybody here who doesn't have a mime-compatible MUA?

Yes - anyone using the email client from the world's largest desktop
computer software company.

It doesn't have any method for displaying text attachments.
It has a scheme for executing attachments, for which it will use
an interpreter based on the filename extension.
(Yes - this is why it is very good at propagating viruses.)

FWIW it can send valid patches quite easily - just copy/paste from wordpad.
(Possibly after hacking the registry to allow lines longer than 72 characters.

	David



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