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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC] tun: add ioctl to modify vnet header size
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 03:02:44PM -0700, David Stevens wrote:
> netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org wrote on 03/17/2010 02:35:04 PM:
>
> > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 02:10:11PM -0700, David Stevens wrote:
> > > Shouldn't we enforce a maximum too? Esp. if overflow/underflow
> > > will break any of the checks when it's used.
> > >
> > > +-DLS
> >
> > So the maximum is MAX_INT :)
> > I don't think it can break any checks that aren't
> > already broken - what do you have in mind?
>
> I was thinking more like a page. At least, it'd be better
> to fail when trying to set it large than failing allocations
> later. As a header, it really ought to be small.
> But if it works, or fails gracefully, at 2^31-1 on 32-bit
> machines, negative values, etc, then it's ok. Just a suggestion.
>
> +-DLS

All this does is set how much of the buffer to skip, this option does
not allocate any memory. So if you set it to a value > length that you
passed in, you get -EINVAL. Anything else should work. Negative values
are checked for and return -EINVAL when you try to set it. At least,
all that's by design - pls take a look at the code and if you see any
issues, speak up please.

I agree we don't really need to support very large values here,
it just seemed less work.

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MST


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