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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 13:17:33 -0400 (EDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: alon@...vatecore.com Cc: David.Laight@...lab.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, grantgrundler@...il.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4 V2] Ethernet drivers in 3.14-rc3 kernel: fix 3 buffer overflows triggered by hardware devices From: Alon Nafta <alon@...vatecore.com> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 09:41:21 -0700 > In regards to your comment about hardware-induced problems, from a > holistic point of view, IMHO any buffer overflow should get fixed. I completely disagree with you. If we had to accomodate every possible arbitrary mis-behavior of hardware, the drivers would be so bloated as to be nearly unusable. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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