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

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Date:	Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:35:24 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eldad@...refinery.com
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

From: Eldad Zack <eldad@...refinery.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 23:31:47 +0200

> That's the way I see it, as was my initial intent. Then I got
> concerned with the possibility that a communication with
> slightly-broken stack implementation (e.g., unsanitized buffers) would
> fail without the user being able to control it at runtime.
> Do you consider this a non-issue?

I think it's a non-issue.
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