netdev - Re: [PATCH net] packet: tpacket_v3: do not trigger bug() on wrong header status

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Message-ID: <1367963787.13473.11.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
Date:	Tue, 07 May 2013 14:56:27 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
Cc:	chetan loke <loke.chetan@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames-ws@...kjames.pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] packet: tpacket_v3: do not trigger bug() on wrong
 header status

On Tue, 2013-05-07 at 22:49 +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote:

> Right, and now we treat people who write crappy applications with BUG?
> 
> BUG is only for consistency checks *within* the kernel and not meant to
> be triggered on purpose from user space.

+1



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