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Date:	Thu, 07 Apr 2016 12:21:24 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Cc:	vegard.nossum@...cle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	sasha.levin@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: mark DECnet as broken

From: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 15:01:20 +0100

> On Thu,  7 Apr 2016 09:22:43 +0200
> Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...cle.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.