Hi Paul: Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So this doesn't change process_input_packet(), which treats the case > where the first byte is 0xff (PPP_ALLSTATIONS) but the second byte is > 0x03 (PPP_UI) as indicating a packet with a PPP protocol number of > 0xff. Arguably that's wrong since PPP protocol 0xff is reserved, and > the RFC does envision the possibility of receiving frames where the > control field has values other than 0x03.
Your fix is probably needed too. However, I think the issue that Patrick was trying to fix is the case where p[0] != PPP_ALLSTATIONS and therefore we'd still have a problem there. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/