netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/ipv6/exthdrs.c et al: Optional strict PadN option checking

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Date:	Sat, 7 Apr 2012 17:13:45 +0200
From:	Eldad Zack <eldad@...refinery.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
	kaber@...sh.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/ipv6/exthdrs.c et al: Optional strict PadN option checking

(resend, previous message was [rightfully] rejected by the mailer)

On 7 April 2012 17:09, Eldad Zack <eldad@...refinery.com> wrote:
>
> On 7 April 2012 14:46, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>>
>> From: Eldad Zack <eldad@...refinery.com>
>> Date: Sat,  7 Apr 2012 12:44:27 +0200
>>
>> > Added strict checking of PadN, which can be used to increase header
>> > size and thus push the protocol header into the 2nd fragment.
>>
>> A sysctl _AND_ a kconfig option, give me a break, that's
>> pointless.
>>
>> Either we want this or we don't.
>
>
> You're right, that kconfig bit was silly.
> I'd like to keep the sysctl knob, though.
>
> Fixed patch follows.
>
> Eldad
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