Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Prevent overrun when parsing v6 header options

[Yang Xiao]

On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 11:57 PM Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 5/31/19 7:54 AM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 07:50:06AM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
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> >> What do you mean by should ?
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> >> Are they currently already linearized before the function is called,
> >> or is it missing and a bug needs to be fixed ?
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> > AFAICS this is the code-path for locally generated outbound packets.
> > Under what circumstances can the IPv6 header be not in the head?
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> I guess this means we had yet another random submission from Young Xiao :/

Excuse me, what do you mean about random submission from Young?
A month ago, I submitted the patch, and I was told that the format
should be correct.
Then, I resubmitted again.


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