From: One Thousand Gnomes <gno...@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.nos...@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.
