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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] gso: Ensure that the packet is long enough

To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] gso: Ensure that the packet is long enough
From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:02:51 +0000
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On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 14:56 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> 14.01.09 13:52 >>>
> >gso: Ensure that the packet is long enough
> >
> >When we get a GSO packet from an untrusted source, we need to
> >ensure that it is sufficiently long so that we don't end up
> >crashing.
> >
> >Based on discovery and patch by Ian Campbell.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Is that change being pushed upstream then?

I presumed so, it was proposed on linux-netdev at least, it is being
tracked at http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/18346/

Ian.


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