Re: [CHECKER] Probable security holes in 2.6.5

[Chris Wright]

* Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> The proper solution is for e1000 to use ethtool_ops.

I think Steve Hemminger is cobbling something together ATM.  Note that a
mechnical switchover would have ->get_regs_len() return 32 (ints), while it
only fills in 26, leaking those last 24 bytes.

cheers,
-chris
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