Hi, On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 10:09:39PM -0400, Michael Richardson wrote: > > Alexander Aring <ar...@mojatatu.com> wrote: > >> It totally seems like broken behaviour. Maybe it's not even > >> intentional. Maybe they are just foobar. > > > They simple don't know what they doing... somebody thought 6LoWPAN need > > to be 6LoWPAN, but they actually don't use the 6LoWPAN handling inside > > the kernel. _Except_ they doing out of tree stuff which I don't > > believe. > > So, it seems like this ioctl() should be disabled, or restricted to cases > that actually work. hate to break their code, but if it's broken anyway, at > least the kernel won't crash under them. >
before we breaking their software I will gentle ask before why they doing that and I get a good reason then. Then we look more how we deal with an illegal read/dereference in dev->priv. I will figure out how I can do that over github. - Alex
