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Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:35:47 +1000 From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> To: paulus@...ba.org (Paul Mackerras) Cc: davem@...emloft.net, kaber@...sh.net, poemann@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c in linux-2.6.21-rc6 Hi Paul: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org> wrote: > > So this doesn't change process_input_packet(), which treats the case > where the first byte is 0xff (PPP_ALLSTATIONS) but the second byte is > 0x03 (PPP_UI) as indicating a packet with a PPP protocol number of > 0xff. Arguably that's wrong since PPP protocol 0xff is reserved, and > the RFC does envision the possibility of receiving frames where the > control field has values other than 0x03. Your fix is probably needed too. However, I think the issue that Patrick was trying to fix is the case where p[0] != PPP_ALLSTATIONS and therefore we'd still have a problem there. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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