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Date:      Fri, 31 May 2002 16:50:40 -0400
From:      Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@unixdaemons.com>
To:        Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: m_split() considered harmful
Message-ID:  <20020531165040.A71744@unixdaemons.com>
In-Reply-To: <200205312025.g4VKP9t02205@arch20m.dellroad.org>; from archie@dellroad.org on Fri, May 31, 2002 at 01:25:09PM -0700
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0205311243460.29361-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <200205312025.g4VKP9t02205@arch20m.dellroad.org>

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On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 01:25:09PM -0700, Archie Cobbs wrote:
[...]
> As a temporary saftey measure, I'll add M_WRITABLE(m) into the
> M_TRAILINGSPACE() macro. However, I see this as a temporary hack;
> the correct fix is to put the burden of writability on the caller.
> After all, M_TRAILINGSPACE() doesn't modify the mbuf data!
> 
> That is, what we really need is a more general audit for code that
> writes into mbufs that might be read-only -- and, as one special case
> of tha, code that calls M_TRAILINGSPACE()/M_LEADINGSPACE() before writing
> into an mbuf.

  Agreed.

[...]
> Updated patch below.
> 
> -Archie
[...]

  Patch looks good.

-- 
Bosko Milekic
bmilekic@unixdaemons.com
bmilekic@FreeBSD.org


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