On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 08:52:08PM -0800, David Miller wrote:

From: Dan Carpenter <redacted>
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 23:35:39 +0300

quoted

The intent here was to cap the length to USHRT_MAX, but what the
code actually does is it just casts the return from strlen() to
unsigned short and truncates the significant bits away.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <redacted>

If you want me to apply this, it doesn't apply cleanly to net-2.6
at all.

Sorry.  I screwed up.

This was on top of a patch from M. Mohan Kumar [off-list ref]
that hasn't hit net-2.6 yet.  Mohan wasn't included on the CC
list because get_maintainer.pl changed and I didn't notice and 
I wasn't careful.

Eric, could Mohan just fix his patch before it gets merged or is it
better to send these as two patches?

regards,
dan carpenter

Ps:  Mohon the patch is here:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=129512381528034&w=2