Re: netdevice notifier and device private data

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Hi,

On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 10:09:39PM -0400, Michael Richardson wrote:
> 
> Alexander Aring <aring@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>     >> It totally seems like broken behaviour.  Maybe it's not even
>     >> intentional.  Maybe they are just foobar.
> 
>     > They simple don't know what they doing... somebody thought 6LoWPAN need
>     > to be 6LoWPAN, but they actually don't use the 6LoWPAN handling inside
>     > the kernel. _Except_ they doing out of tree stuff which I don't
>     > believe.
> 
> So, it seems like this ioctl() should be disabled, or restricted to cases
> that actually work.  hate to break their code, but if it's broken anyway, at
> least the kernel won't crash under them.
> 

before we breaking their software I will gentle ask before why they
doing that and I get a good reason then. Then we look more how we deal
with an illegal read/dereference in dev->priv.

I will figure out how I can do that over github.

- Alex
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