netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/3] decnet: Move to staging

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Message-Id: <20101122.211923.193717252.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 22 Nov 2010 21:19:23 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	ben@...adent.org.uk, gregkh@...e.de, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, debian-kernel@...ts.debian.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] decnet: Move to staging

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 20:31:31 -0800

> On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 03:51:53 +0000
> Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Recent review has revealed several bugs in obscure protocol
>> implementations that can be exploited by local users for denial of
>> service or privilege escalation.
>> 
>> The decnet protocol (PF_DECnet) is unmaintained.  Since 2.6.12-rc2 the
>> only changes appear to be adjustments for net API changes and fixes
>> for bugs found by inspection.
>> 
>> This protocol generally should not be enabled by distributions, since
>> the cost of a security flaw affecting all installed systems presumably
>> outweighs the benefit to the few (if any) legitimate users.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
> 
> NAK there are still users and stuff does get fixed.
> If you don't like it then disable it from config.

Seriously, I can't even remember a bonifides security flaw in decnet
being found recently and in fact the decnet stack is very well written
code.
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