On Thu, 7 Apr 2016 09:22:43 +0200 Vegard Nossum <vegard.nos...@oracle.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 ? Alan