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Re: [PATCH] net: mark DECnet as broken

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

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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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