Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Apr 2016 15:01:20 +0100 | From | One Thousand Gnomes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] net: mark DECnet as broken |
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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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