netdev - Re: Passive OS fingerprint xtables match.

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Date:	Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:30:13 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
CC:	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Netfilter Development Mailinglist 
	<netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Passive OS fingerprint xtables match.

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Friday 2009-06-05 13:54, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>   
>>> +
>>> +		if (optsize > sizeof(opts))
>>> +			optsize = sizeof(opts);
>>>       
>> How can this happen? The doff field can only represent up to 40
>> bytes of option length.
>>     
>
> Forged packets?

How would that increase the size of the doff field? :)
>>> +	printk(KERN_INFO "Started passive OS fingerprint matching module.\n");
>>>       
>> Please no messages on successful module load. Or at least
>> not when statically built, but preferrably not at all.
>>     
>
> By that logic should not the messages-on-load for netfilter be removed? ;-)
>   

I wouldn't care, but there's a difference between the main module printing a
message and extensions printing a message.

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