netdev - Re: can: add sanity checks

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Message-Id: <20080705.233900.251289513.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:39:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	oliver@...tkopp.net
Cc:	urs.thuermann@...kswagen.de, oliver.hartkopp@...kswagen.de,
	nautsch@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: can: add sanity checks

From: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@...tkopp.net>
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:44:48 +0200

> Even though the CAN netlayer only deals with CAN netdevices, the 
> netlayer interface to the userspace and to the device layer should 
> perform some sanity checks.
> 
> This patch adds several sanity checks that mainly prevent userspace apps 
> to send broken content into the system that may be misinterpreted by 
> some other userspace application.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver.hartkopp@...kswagen.de>
> Signed-off-by: Urs Thuermann <urs.thuermann@...kswagen.de>
> Acked-by: Andre Naujoks <nautsch@...il.com>

Applied to net-2.6, thanks Oliver.
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