netdev.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	Debian kernel maintainers <debian-kernel@lists.debian.org>
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] econet: Move to staging
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 03:52:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1290484348.6770.1329.camel@localhost> (raw)

Recent review has revealed several bugs in obscure protocol
implementations that can be exploited by local users for denial of
service or privilege escalation.

The econet protocol (PF_ECONET) is unmaintained.  There appear to be
no published applications for it, and it has never progressed beyond
'experimental' status.

This protocol generally should not be enabled by distributions, since
the cost of a security flaw affecting all installed systems presumably
outweighs the benefit to the few (if any) legitimate users.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
 drivers/staging/Kconfig |    2 ++
 net/Kconfig             |    1 -
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/Kconfig
index dd94cb2..a9dd984 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/staging/Kconfig
@@ -177,5 +177,7 @@ source "drivers/staging/speakup/Kconfig"
 
 source "net/decnet/Kconfig"
 
+source "net/econet/Kconfig"
+
 endif # !STAGING_EXCLUDE_BUILD
 endif # STAGING
diff --git a/net/Kconfig b/net/Kconfig
index 9e4fc29..059c9f1 100644
--- a/net/Kconfig
+++ b/net/Kconfig
@@ -205,7 +205,6 @@ source "net/ipx/Kconfig"
 source "drivers/net/appletalk/Kconfig"
 source "net/x25/Kconfig"
 source "net/lapb/Kconfig"
-source "net/econet/Kconfig"
 source "net/wanrouter/Kconfig"
 source "net/phonet/Kconfig"
 source "net/ieee802154/Kconfig"
-- 
1.7.2.3




             reply	other threads:[~2010-11-23  3:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-23  3:52 Ben Hutchings [this message]
2010-11-23  4:32 ` [PATCH 2/3] econet: Move to staging Stephen Hemminger
2010-11-24 18:04 ` Greg KH

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=1290484348.6770.1329.camel@localhost \
    --to=ben@decadent.org.uk \
    --cc=davem@davemloft.net \
    --cc=debian-kernel@lists.debian.org \
    --cc=devel@driverdev.osuosl.org \
    --cc=gregkh@suse.de \
    --cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).