Re: [PATCH net] netrom: do some basic forms of validation on incoming frames

On Thu, Apr 09, 2026 at 08:32:35PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Apr 2026 20:03:28 +0100 Simon Horman wrote:
> > I expect that checking skb->len isn't sufficient here
> > and pskb_may_pull needs to be used to ensure that
> > the data is also available in the linear section of the skb.
> 
> Or for simplicity we could also be testing against skb_headlen()
> since we don't expect any legit non-linear frames here? Dunno.

I'll be glad to change this either way, your call.  Given that this is
an obsolete protocol that seems to only be a target for drive-by fuzzers
to attack, whatever the simplest thing to do to quiet them up I'll be
glad to implement.

Or can we just delete this stuff entirely?  :)

thanks,

greg k-h