netdev - Re: query: bnx2 and tg3 don't check tcp and/or ip header length validity?

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Date:	Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:49:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	william.allen.simpson@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: query: bnx2 and tg3 don't check tcp and/or ip header length
 validity?

This is transmit, and the packets can only come from the Linux
TCP stack, not some external entity.

You're being way too anal here, and adding these checks to
drivers would be just a lot of rediculious bloat.
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