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SubjectRe: [PATCH] net: mark DECnet as broken
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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