From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754298AbbE1Qex (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 May 2015 12:34:53 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:50101 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753518AbbE1Qeo (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 May 2015 12:34:44 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 09:34:38 -0700 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Cc: Dan Carpenter , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [oss-security] Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] ozwpan: unchecked signed subtraction leads to DoS Message-ID: <20150528163438.GD23837@kroah.com> References: <1431543500-4847-1-git-send-email-Jason@zx2c4.com> <1432642669-7289-1-git-send-email-Jason@zx2c4.com> <1432642669-7289-5-git-send-email-Jason@zx2c4.com> <20150526140654.GI11588@mwanda> <20150528110423.GD11588@mwanda> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 05:37:59PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > It's really not simpler to understand though. > > Greg - do you want me to resubmit a v3 for this, or does it not really > matter and we can address this in another series? Personally, I'm > erring on the side of wanting to get *something* merged sooner, rather > than doing a v3. I'd prefer to get it right, there is no rush, these are staging drivers that no distro enables by default. Staging drivers are known to be full of all sorts of crap, including issues like this, that's why they are in the staging directory. thanks, greg k-h