kern/89752: [bpf] [patch] bpf_validate() needs to do more checks

[Guy Harris]

The following reply was made to PR kern/89752; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Guy Harris <guy at alum.mit.edu>
To: Jung-uk Kim <jkim at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/89752: [bpf] [patch] bpf_validate() needs to do more checks
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 15:11:03 -0800

 On Dec 7, 2005, at 2:32 PM, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
 
 > It looks good but `bpf_maxbufsize' may be unavailable to other
 > consumers such as ng_bpf(4) and it doesn't make sense to them.
 
 Then that check can probably be removed - OpenBSD's consumers might  
 all use bpf_maxbufsize, so it was OK for them, and it's just an  
 optimization anyway (as the comment says, a "More strict check with  
 actual packet length is done runtime").
 
 (BTW, this was from OpenBSD; if you check it in, say it's from Otto  
 Moerbeek's changes to OpenBSD, do *NOT* give me direct credit for it!)