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| From | One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [PATCH] net: mark DECnet as broken |
| Date | 2016-04-07 16:10 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <rliNb-52c-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <rlcy6-kR-11@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | Intel Corporation |
On Thu, 7 Apr 2016 09:22:43 +0200 Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> wrote: > There are NULL pointer dereference bugs in DECnet which can be triggered > by unprivileged users and have been reported multiple times to LKML, > however nobody seems confident enough in the proposed fixes to merge them > and the consensus seems to be that nobody cares enough about DECnet to > see it fixed anyway. > > To shield unsuspecting users from the possible DOS, we should mark this > BROKEN until somebody who actually uses this code can fix it. How about consigning it to staging at this point ? Alan
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[PATCH] net: mark DECnet as broken Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> - 2016-04-07 09:30 +0200
Re: [PATCH] net: mark DECnet as broken James Cameron <quozl@laptop.org> - 2016-04-07 10:00 +0200
Re: [PATCH] net: mark DECnet as broken One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-04-07 16:10 +0200
Re: [PATCH] net: mark DECnet as broken David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-04-07 18:30 +0200
Re: [PATCH] net: mark DECnet as broken David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-04-11 05:10 +0200
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