[IPv6]: Fix incorrect length check in rawv6_sendmsg()
In article <20070329.142644.70222545.davem@davemloft.net> (at Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:26:44 -0700 (PDT)), David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> says: > From: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com> > Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:17:28 -0700 > > > The check for length in rawv6_sendmsg() is incorrect. > > As len is an unsigned int, (len < 0) will never be TRUE. > > I think checking for IPV6_MAXPLEN(65535) is better. > > > > Is it possible to send ipv6 jumbo packets using raw > > sockets? If so, we can remove this check. > > I don't see why such a limitation against jumbo would exist, > does anyone else? > > Thanks for catching this Sridhar. A good compiler should simply > fail to compile "if (x < 0)" when 'x' is an unsigned type, don't > you think :-) Dave, we use "int" for returning value, so we should fix this anyway, IMHO; we should not allow len > INT_MAX. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Acked-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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