netdev - Re: [PATCH][IPv6]: Fix incorrect length check in rawv6

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Date:	Fri, 30 Mar 2007 01:45:42 +0300
From:	Sami Farin <safari-kernel@...ari.iki.fi>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][IPv6]: Fix incorrect length check in rawv6_sendmsg()

On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 14:26:44 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>
> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:17:28 -0700
> 
> > The check for length in rawv6_sendmsg() is incorrect.
> > As len is an unsigned int, (len < 0) will never be TRUE.
> > I think checking for IPV6_MAXPLEN(65535) is better.
> > 
> > Is it possible to send ipv6 jumbo packets using raw
> > sockets? If so, we can remove this check.
> 
> I don't see why such a limitation against jumbo would exist,
> does anyone else?
> 
> Thanks for catching this Sridhar.  A good compiler should simply
> fail to compile "if (x < 0)" when 'x' is an unsigned type, don't
> you think :-)

gcc warns if you use -W or -Wextra (but not if only -Wall is used):

* An unsigned value is compared against zero with '<' or '>='.

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