netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Fix inconsistent teardown and release of private netdev state.

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 for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

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

Message-ID: <20170612134048.21715cbd@plumbers-lap.home.lan>
Date:   Mon, 12 Jun 2017 13:40:48 -0700
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Fix inconsistent teardown and release of private
 netdev state.

On Fri, 09 Jun 2017 14:54:34 -0400 (EDT)
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:

> From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
> Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2017 10:21:04 -0700
> 
> > Is there anything in Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt about this to
> > avoid any future issues?  
> 
> You asked me about this last time, and I did not forget about it.
> 
> I sincerely lack the time to do a writeup about it, and I felt that
> delaying the fix for another week or two until I find that magical
> non-existing timeframe to write the docs was not beneficial for
> users at all.

I could take a stab at it, but my writing skills are not great.
We don't need to delay for Documentation, in fact it is easier to write after
the cleanup.