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Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 10:03:34 +0100
From: Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: EtherLeak generic fix - for feedback & testing.
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On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 04:09:18 -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Ashish Kalra <ashishk@caldera.com>
>    Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 17:52:06 +0500
> 
>    This is a kernel-2.4.13 patch for a "generic" fix for the Etherleak security
>    issue and it works without making modifications to network device drivers. 
> 
> Not very interesting as we've fixed the problem and
> updated all the necessary drivers already.

Here's hoping nobody ever writes a driver based on pci-skeleton, which
drives a chip that has no auto-padding but comes without etherleak fix :-P.

Roger
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