linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] e1000: To filter the negative skb->len

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Date:	Mon, 12 May 2014 21:04:21 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	xuyongjiande@...il.com
Cc:	linux.nics@...el.com, e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000: To filter the negative skb->len

On Tue, 2014-05-13 at 11:33 +0800, xuyongjiande@...il.com wrote:
> From: Yongjian Xu <xuyongjiande@...il.com>
> 
> skb->len is unsigned int, "skb->len <= 0" should be "(int)(skb->len) <= 0".

Why ?

Did you hit a case skb->len would be 0 or 'negative' ?

This test makes no sense, just remove it.



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