On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 03:52:28AM +0000, Ben Hutchings 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 econet protocol (PF_ECONET) is unmaintained. There appear to be > no published applications for it, and it has never progressed beyond > 'experimental' status. > > 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/staging/Kconfig | 2 ++ > net/Kconfig | 1 - > 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/Kconfig > index dd94cb2..a9dd984 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/Kconfig > +++ b/drivers/staging/Kconfig > @@ -177,5 +177,7 @@ source "drivers/staging/speakup/Kconfig" > > source "net/decnet/Kconfig" > > +source "net/econet/Kconfig" > + > endif # !STAGING_EXCLUDE_BUILD > endif # STAGING > diff --git a/net/Kconfig b/net/Kconfig > index 9e4fc29..059c9f1 100644 > --- a/net/Kconfig > +++ b/net/Kconfig > @@ -205,7 +205,6 @@ source "net/ipx/Kconfig" > source "drivers/net/appletalk/Kconfig" > source "net/x25/Kconfig" > source "net/lapb/Kconfig" > -source "net/econet/Kconfig" No, please move the code itself to drivers/staging/ so we know to then delete it after a few kernel versions. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
