netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: Replace infinite loop on recvmsg bug with proper crashusers

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Date:	Wed, 07 Nov 2012 08:29:12 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Cc:	Julius Werner <jwerner@...omium.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Sameer Nanda <snanda@...omium.org>,
	Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@...omium.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: Replace infinite loop on recvmsg bug with proper
 crashusers

On Wed, 2012-11-07 at 10:54 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:

> It sounds more appropriate to me, instead of silently wedging the box.
> At least with that approach we have a chance of finding out what happened.

Its quite the opposite.

If bug is still there 6 months after the commits that broke the drivers,
(making an old bug visible) that means that people never realized the
bug was there.

I understand a distro maintainer has its own choices, but for upstream
kernel we want to have early reports.

This bug is fatal and a security issue. BUG() is appropriate.

If the driver cant be fixed, it should be marked broken.

So I personally NACKed patch to hide the bug, trying to be friendly to
the user.

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