Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: reset mac header in dev_start_xmit()

From: Ben Greear <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2013 22:40:44 -0800

On 02/05/2013 10:22 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]>
>
> On 64 bit arches :
>
> There is a off-by-one error in qdisc_pkt_len_init() because
> mac_header is not set in xmit path.
>
> skb_mac_header() returns an out of bound value that was
> harmless because hdr_len is an 'unsigned int'
>
> On 32bit arches, the error is abysmal.
>
> This patch is also a prereq for "macvlan: add multicast filter"

I'll go ahead and apply this one to our tree for testing, and will
apply the multicast one as soon as I resolve some bugs that currently
have me swamped...

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <[email-masked]>
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