From: "Balbir Singh" <balbir_soni@hotmail.com>
To: davem@redhat.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] Suspected bug in getpeername and getsockname
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 15:35:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F79oay0q0NTY9agv3Su00012f71@hotmail.com> (raw)
>From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
>
> Even if we do not pass the value passed by the user
> to the protocol specific code, I would like to cleanup
> the code in socket.c to check for invalid values
> upfront and save time and space in all the calls.
>
>Optimizing error cases never bears any fruit.
In this case, I certainly think it does. Could u give a
case as to why doing this would be harmful? I think the
only issue can be maintainability and doing the change
cleanly. But I think u are a good maintainer and will
accept the changes only if they are properly fixed.
Right :-)
Balbir
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-17 23:35 Balbir Singh [this message]
2002-01-17 23:38 ` [BUG] Suspected bug in getpeername and getsockname David S. Miller
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2002-01-18 0:05 Balbir Singh
2002-01-17 23:20 Balbir Singh
2002-01-17 23:26 ` David S. Miller
2002-01-17 22:11 Balbir Singh
2002-01-17 22:30 ` David S. Miller
2002-01-17 16:27 Balbir Singh
2002-01-17 20:24 ` kuznet
2002-01-17 21:11 ` David S. Miller
2002-01-16 0:51 Balbir Singh
2002-01-17 0:54 ` David S. Miller
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