netdev - Re: [Xen-devel] xennet_start

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Date:   Thu, 19 Jan 2017 11:37:59 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com
Cc:     Paul.Durrant@...rix.com, konrad.wilk@...cle.com,
        wei.liu2@...rix.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] xennet_start_xmit assumptions

From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 06:14:26 -0500

> I'll probably work on fixing packet_snd to return -EINVAL 
> or similar when the len is zero this week.

I thought we had code which made sure that at least a minimal
link layer header was present in the SKB?

Specifically I'm talking about the dev_validate_header() check.
That is supposed to protect us from these kinds of situations.