On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 05:21:52PM -0800, Jesse Gross wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 03:50:56PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>> >> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 03:48:25PM -0800, Jesse Gross wrote:
>> >> > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:
>> >> > > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 03:38:51PM -0800, Jesse Gross wrote:
>> >> > >> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:
>> >> > >> > I guess that this will need reconsideration after the "encap" 
>> >> > >> > series,
>> >> > >> > so I guess there's no point in a detailed response right now--let 
>> >> > >> > me
>> >> > >> > know if you disagree.
>> >> > >>
>> >> > >> I agree that most of this patch has been overcome by events. ??I 
>> >> > >> think
>> >> > >> there are a few useful things here that aren't addressed by the 
>> >> > >> latest
>> >> > >> patch series though:
>> >> > >> ??* Packets with invalid vlan headers shouldn't be dropped (maybe 
>> >> > >> this
>> >> > >> is another rule, that invalid protocol headers should never drop the
>> >> > >> packet?).
>> >> > >> ??* I think that if the EtherType is 0x8100 then we should expect a
>> >> > >> vlan attribute which may be an empty one, similar to other L3
>> >> > >> protocols.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > OK, do you want to address that or do you want me to do it?
>> >> >
>> >> > Could you do it while I review this series?
>> >>
>> >> OK.
>> >
>> > This is really preliminary. ??It compiles and passes "make check", I
>> > won't vouch for anything else, hence no signed-off-by yet. ??It applies
>> > after the "encap" series.
>> >
>> > Commit message is the same one you had, I haven't updated it at all.
>>
>> I haven't looked at the code at all but we should also add to the
>> rules the principles that this patch implements (don't drop packets
>> for broken tags; if the previous layer indicates that the attribute
>> should be present then it should be, even if empty).
>
> How about this:
>
> Handling malformed packets

Looks good, thanks.
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