linux-kernel - Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] net, batman: don't crash on zero length strings in routing

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Message-Id: <201212250336.36874.lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Date:	Tue, 25 Dec 2012 03:36:36 +0800
From:	Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@...oo.de>
To:	b.a.t.m.a.n@...ts.open-mesh.org
Cc:	Pau Koning <paukoning@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, siwu@....tu-chemnitz.de,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] net, batman: don't crash on zero length strings in routing_algo

On Monday, December 24, 2012 23:42:15 Pau Koning wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@...oo.de> 
wrote:
> > On Monday, December 24, 2012 22:18:52 Pau Koning wrote:
> >> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com> 
wrote:
> >> > The code that works with routing_algo assumes that the string passed
> >> > is non
> >> 
> >> > empty, this assumption is wrong:
> >> Why isn't this patch part of Linux 3.7? It seems to be a bugfix and it
> >> was sent early enough?
> > 
> > The patch received a reply mere 2 hours after it was sent. Again, please
> > read all mails before making noise.
> 
> Ok, leaving this problem unsolved is the correct way to handle it?
> Nobody is allowed to say anything?

No, of course you are allowed "to say" something. I was simply pointing you to 
the explanation why the patch wasn't merged yet.

Cheers,
Marek
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