Oh yes. I got the entire thread twice. I was assuming this to be the groundhog day :-) See picture. Regards, Oliver On 28.01.2015 09:25, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote: > On 01/27/2015 08:12 PM, Oliver Hartkopp wrote: >> When changing flags in the CAN drivers ctrlmode the provided new content has to >> be checked whether the bits are allowed to be changed. The bits that are to be >> changed are given as a bitfield in cm->mask. Therefore checking against >> cm->flags is wrong as the content can hold any kind of values. >> >> The iproute2 tool sets the bits in cm->mask and cm->flags depending on the >> detected command line options. To be robust against bogus user space >> applications additionally sanitize the provided flags with the provided mask. >> >> (Backport of upstream commit 9b1087aa5e86448fe6ad40a58964e35f3ba423d5 for >> Linux 3.2 .. Linux 3.14) > > Zefan Li is taking care of v3.4 > > Marc >