netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2 v2 2/2] arpd: fix parsing of unlikely long comments

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Date:	Sun, 3 Jan 2016 15:04:25 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:	Andreas Henriksson <andreas@...al.se>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 v2 2/2] arpd: fix parsing of unlikely long
 comments

On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 19:44:29 +0100
Andreas Henriksson <andreas@...al.se> wrote:

> Hello Stephen Hemminger.
> 
> Please beware that this has been compile-tested only.
> Submitting it like this was what I was trying to avoid
> by just throwing in a FIXME comment in the initial submission.
> Sorry in advance if I managed to screw something up, but
> hopefully I didn't...
> 
> Regards,
> Andreas Henriksson
> 

All this seems like overkill. The file format for arpd is very simple:
ifindex, IPv4, MAC
and really should never be too long. If it is the input is garbage and the
whole input should just be rejected, logged, and arpd should exit.

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