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This provides safety against negative optlen at the type level instead of depending upon (sometimes non-trivial) checks against this sprinkled all over the the place, in each and every implementation. Based upon work done by Arjan van de Ven and feedback from Linus Torvalds. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux DECnet Project ====================== The documentation for this kernel subsystem is available in the Documentation/networking subdirectory of this distribution and also on line at http://www.chygwyn.com/DECnet/ Steve Whitehouse <SteveW@ACM.org>