Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 16:45:35 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stream.c worst-case kernel paths Message-ID: <4.2.2.20000121164441.01980d30@localhost> In-Reply-To: <7192.948496931@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <Your message of "Fri, 21 Jan 2000 15:11:06 PST." <200001212311.PAA64559@apollo.backplane.com>
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At 04:22 PM 1/21/2000 , Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >It makes a lot of sense to do cheap (relative to the checksum) >checks on the packet before we do the checksum, as long as we >don't modify any state before the checksum is validated. Agreed. This satisfies both Alfred's and Matt's constraints. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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