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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/13] KNI: guard against unterminated
 dev_info.name leading to BUG in alloc_netdev()
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 17:48:34 +0000
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On 12/14/2016 5:37 PM, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 05:33:11PM +0000, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
>> On 12/13/2016 1:08 AM, Michał Mirosław wrote:
>>> Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <michal.miroslaw@atendesoftware.pl>
>>> ---
>>
>> Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
>>
>> I guess no harm doing extra check on user input.
> 
> This actually prevents an OOPS that happens when you try to create KNI with
> too long name.

Thanks for fixing then.