David Miller wrote:
> David S. Miller (4):
>       Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/.../linville/wireless-next-2.6
>       tcp: Remove runtime check that can never be true.

This is a poor patch that was never sent to the netdev list for review.  Copies to
and from user space should always check for buffer overruns.  A better patch was
submitted (attached) some time ago.

Miller's patch has 2 flaws:

  1) It accidentally removed a comment line that describes the purpose of the
following memcpy(), paralleling language in the internet-draft.

  2) It fails to test for buffer overruns.  The existing code has an accurate test,
that compiles (to no code) correctly with current gcc.  But it produces a warning
in some (fairly old) gcc versions.

Instead, the better patch uses the Kernel defined BUILD_BUG_ON().  Please
substitute the better patch in the main tree.


>       Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/.../linville/wireless-2.6
>       Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/
>