From: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de>,
Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>,
gigaset307x-common@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 32/58] isdn/gigaset: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 01:31:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1508455899.2274.73.camel@tiscali.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1710200025470.2054@nanos>
[CC-ing Linus because I quote him.]
On Fri, 2017-10-20 at 00:28 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Well, that does not explain why
>
> drivers->cs + i
>
> would be corrupted. That would require that this cs -> urb link points at
> driver magically and then wreckages that driver data structure. Might be
> the case, but if so then there are dragons burried somehwere
Let's assume dragons are buried somewhere.
We need users to show us that they met a dragon, right? (I care little about
dragons no-one ever stumbles upon.)
In the explanation of commit 9f5af546e6ac ("isdn/i4l: fix buffer overflow")
Linus added:
[ ISDN seems to be effectively unmaintained, and the I4L driver in
particular is long deprecated, but in case somebody uses this..
- Linus ]
ISDN is pretty niche. So it's no surprise that in mainline it's divided into
three parts: I4L, CAPI, and mISDN.
Arnd Bergmann has suggested more than once to move I4L to staging. (As far as
I know, moving drivers to staging effectively means removing those drivers,
but anyhow.) I'd say we'd just should do that. The stuff has been deemed
deprecated since basically forever.
I never cared about mISDN, but as far as I can see mISDN has quietly left
mainline.
The only actively maintained CAPI drivers are gigaset's drivers. But I'm
afraid maintaining gigaset basically means seeing treewide cleanups fly by and
keeping the various fuzzers happy. I don't mind, and I could keep on doing
that for years. But still, I'd love to hear someone say: yes, I still care
about mainline ISDN.
Does that person still exists?
Thanks,
Paul Bolle
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-19 23:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-17 0:28 [PATCH 00/58] networking: Convert timers to use timer_setup() Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:28 ` [PATCH 01/58] net/decnet: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:28 ` [PATCH 02/58] net/lapb: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:28 ` [PATCH 03/58] net/rose: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:28 ` [PATCH 04/58] net/irda-usb: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:28 ` [PATCH 05/58] net/irda/bfin_sir: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:28 ` [PATCH 06/58] net/ti/tlan: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:28 ` [PATCH 07/58] net/usb/usbnet: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 10:30 ` Oliver Neukum
2017-10-17 0:28 ` [PATCH 08/58] net/wireless/ray_cs: " Kees Cook
2017-10-27 7:31 ` [08/58] " Kalle Valo
2017-10-17 0:28 ` [PATCH 09/58] net/irda: " Kees Cook
2018-03-02 21:29 ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2018-03-02 22:30 ` Kees Cook
2018-03-02 23:08 ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2017-10-17 0:28 ` [PATCH 10/58] isdn/hisax: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:28 ` [PATCH 11/58] net/hamradio/6pack: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:28 ` [PATCH 12/58] xfrm: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:28 ` [PATCH 13/58] ethernet/broadcom: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:28 ` [PATCH 14/58] net: tulip: de2104x: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:28 ` [PATCH 15/58] pcmcia/electra_cf: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 16/58] net: ethernet: stmmac: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 17/58] net/cw1200: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 18/58] net: vxge: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 19/58] drivers/atm/suni: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 20/58] atm: idt77252: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 21/58] net: tulip: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 22/58] net: can: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 23/58] drivers/net/3com: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 24/58] chelsio: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 25/58] net: amd8111e: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 26/58] bna: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 27/58] net: dl2k: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 28/58] net: ksz884x: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 29/58] forcedeth: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 30/58] mISDN: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 31/58] isdn/gigaset: Use kzalloc instead of open-coded field zeroing Kees Cook
2017-10-19 20:46 ` Paul Bolle
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 32/58] isdn/gigaset: Convert timers to use timer_setup() Kees Cook
2017-10-19 21:03 ` Paul Bolle
2017-10-19 21:20 ` Paul Bolle
2017-10-19 21:31 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-10-19 21:51 ` Paul Bolle
2017-10-19 22:28 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-10-19 23:31 ` Paul Bolle [this message]
2017-10-19 21:31 ` Kees Cook
2017-10-19 22:16 ` Paul Bolle
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 33/58] net: sched: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 34/58] netfilter: ipset: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 35/58] inet/connection_sock: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 36/58] inet: frags: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 37/58] net/core: Collapse redundant sk_timer callback data assignments Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 38/58] hdlc: Convert timers to use timer_setup() Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 39/58] appletalk: Remove unneeded synchronization Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 40/58] drivers/net/appletalk: Convert timers to use timer_setup() Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 41/58] net/atm/mpc: Stop using open-coded timer .data field Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 42/58] isdnloop: Convert timers to use timer_setup() Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 43/58] net: ethernet: apple: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 44/58] net: ethernet: sun: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 16:27 ` Shannon Nelson
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 45/58] net: seeq: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 46/58] hamradio/scc: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 47/58] net/ethernet/sgi: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 48/58] net: usb: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 49/58] net: neterion: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 50/58] net: hns: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 51/58] ethernet/intel: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 52/58] net/core: Convert sk_timer users " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 53/58] net: atm: Convert timers " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 54/58] net/xen-netback: " Kees Cook
2017-10-20 16:16 ` Wei Liu
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 55/58] net: fs_enet: Remove unused timer Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 56/58] um: net: Convert timers to use timer_setup() Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 57/58] ipv4: timewait: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 0:29 ` [PATCH 58/58] sunrpc: " Kees Cook
2017-10-17 14:18 ` [PATCH 00/58] networking: " Kalle Valo
2017-10-17 19:47 ` Kees Cook
2017-10-18 5:44 ` Kalle Valo
2017-10-18 19:45 ` Kees Cook
2017-10-18 11:42 ` David Miller
2017-10-18 19:42 ` Kees Cook
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