Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 4 authors, 2007-03-30

Re: [PATCH][IPv6]: Fix incorrect length check in rawv6_sendmsg()

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2007-03-29 21:26:56

From: Sridhar Samudrala <redacted>
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 :-)
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