On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 09:22:43AM +0200, Vegard Nossum 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. > > Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nos...@oracle.com> > Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/17/666 > Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com> > Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.le...@oracle.com> > Cc: David Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: James Cameron <qu...@laptop.org> (An old DECnet application programmer from way back, ah what fun!) > --- > net/decnet/Kconfig | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > diff --git a/net/decnet/Kconfig b/net/decnet/Kconfig > index f3393e1..b040172 100644 > --- a/net/decnet/Kconfig > +++ b/net/decnet/Kconfig > @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ > # > config DECNET > tristate "DECnet Support" > + depends on BROKEN > ---help--- > The DECnet networking protocol was used in many products made by > Digital (now Compaq). It provides reliable stream and sequenced fwiw, then Compaq merged into HP. > -- > 1.9.1 > -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/
