Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Jul 2013 15:18:02 -0700 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/5] SLIP: Handle error codes from the TTY layer |
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On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 04:31:31PM +0100, Dean Jenkins wrote: > It appears that SLIP does not handle error codes from the TTY layer. > This will result in a malfunction because the remaining length of > data will be corrupted by the negative error code values from the TTY > layer. > > Therefore, add error code checks in sl_encaps() and sl_encaps_wakeup() > to prevent the corruption of the sent data length. > > Note that SLIP is connectionless so on TTY error indicate that all data > was sent. It seems SLIP does not return error codes to the network > layer. > > Signed-off-by: Dean Jenkins <Dean_Jenkins@mentor.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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