netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: check the length of the data before dereferencing it

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Message-ID: <CABa6K_Hc7ZVVR6XvhEXKHNf_YNnrMNQLBTbxksvAJwAV9fer6w@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 2 Apr 2012 12:47:36 +0800
From:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, kaber@...sh.net,
	pablo@...filter.org, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: check the length of the data before dereferencing it

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
>
> No we cant rely on this, kmemcheck might barf on us.
>
> Your patch (and the netfilter one) is fine.
>
>

Got it. Thanks. FYI, the tcp options are copied to the stack before
being parsed.

-- 
Regards,
Changli Gao(xiaosuo@...il.com)
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