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Re: patches (verify_area related) RESENT

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David C Niemi)
Wed May 22 12:18:13 1996

Date: 	Wed, 22 May 1996 00:13:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: David C Niemi <niemi@wauug.erols.com>
To: Heiko Eissfeldt <heiko@colossus.escape.de>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199605071721.TAA19976@colossus.escape.de>

On Tue, 7 May 1996, Heiko Eissfeldt wrote:
> These patches are against 1.3.98 (from source browsing).
> 
> Alan, you don't check Email at
> iialan@www.linux.org.uk (linux.org.uk/big patches), don't you :-)?
> 
> 
> Hope this get into the kernel before 2.0
> 
> Heiko
...

Are these patches just defensive programming, or are they a fix for a 
demonstrated problem?

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