Re: spkm3 removal

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On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 04:11:31PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 15:51 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > Shall we go ahead and remove this?
> > 
> > Somebody stumbled across a security problem in the spkm3 code
> > recently--unexploitable, as far as I can tell, since you'd need an spkm3
> > context first, and those are hard to come by....  But I feel a little
> > bad leaving this code around for innocent bystanders to waste their time
> > auditing.
> 
> Agreed. Let's get rid of it.

OK, I'll give it a little more time in case anyone wants to make a case
for spkm3, then queue it up for 2.6.37--and maybe adding it to -next
will get me some email telling me what I should have done about the
defconfigs....

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