netdev - Re: [PATCH net] rtnetlink: fix userspace API breakage for iproute2

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 12 Jun 2014 11:22:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mschmidt@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, stephen@...workplumber.org,
	alexander.h.duyck@...el.com, michael.riesch@...cron.at,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] rtnetlink: fix userspace API breakage for iproute2
 < v3.9.0

From: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@...hat.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 14:21:07 +0200

> the old version of the userspace tool did what it had to do in order to
> work with a contemporary kernel. You can call that a bug, but the fact
> is that it used to work that way.
> 
> I do not see a difference between "catering to a user tool bug" and
> "not breaking applications, whether we like them or not" (paraphrasing
> Linus's message on this very mailing list just 10 days ago).

I applied your patch and queued it up for -stable, thanks for persevering :)
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html