From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Cc: vegard.nossum@oracle.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com,
sasha.levin@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: mark DECnet as broken
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2016 12:21:24 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160407.122124.1542811219982329414.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160407150120.22934228@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
From: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 15:01:20 +0100
> 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 ?
Staging is a one way facility in my opinion.
I saw we just fix the NULL dereference.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-07 16:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-07 7:22 [PATCH] net: mark DECnet as broken Vegard Nossum
2016-04-07 7:50 ` James Cameron
2016-04-07 14:01 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-04-07 16:21 ` David Miller [this message]
2016-04-11 3:02 ` David Miller
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