On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 09:21:17AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > The datagram interface of LLC is broken in a couple of ways. > These were discovered when trying to use it to build an out-of-kernel > version of STP. > > First it didn't pass the source address of the received packet > in recvfrom(). It needs to copy the source address of received LLC packets > into the socket control block. At the same time fix a security issue > because there was uninitialized data leakage. Every recvfrom call > was just copying out old data. > > Second, LLC should not merge multiple packets in one receive call > on datagram sockets. LLC should preserve packet boundaries on > SOCK_DGRAM. > > This fix goes against the old historical comments about UNIX98 semantics > but without this fix SOCK_DGRAM is broken and useless. So either ANK's > interpretation was incorect or UNIX98 standard was wrong.
This doesn't apply at all to the current -stable tree, sorry. greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
