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

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Message-Id: <20130507.145815.205664097646870885.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 07 May 2013 14:58:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	dborkman@...hat.com, loke.chetan@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	darkjames-ws@...kjames.pl
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] packet: tpacket_v3: do not trigger bug() on wrong
 header status

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 14:56:27 -0700

> 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

+1
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