On Mon, 2017-11-13 at 12:25 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Mon, 2017-11-13 at 11:32 -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Mon, 2017-11-13 at 09:11 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > Support for Decnet has been orphaned for some time. > > > In the interest of reducing the potential bug surface and pre-holiday > > > cleaning, move the decnet protocol into staging for eventual removal. > > > > [] > > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/decnet/TODO b/drivers/staging/decnet/TODO > > > > [] > > > @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ > > > +The DecNet code will be removed soon from the kernel tree as it is old, > > > +obsolete, and buggy. > > > > Old and obsolete, well OK, but > > what's buggy about decnet? > > > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=decnet > > > > Zarro Boogs found. > > > > Then that means nobody uses it. No, it doesn't mean that. > And that syzkaller guys never bothered to add code to actually trigger > the bugs that are probably there. Probably they have bigger fishes to > fry at this moment. It may mean that. > If we leave the code there, chances are high that some hacker is > interested into exploiting the bugs. linux isn't bsd. The code is there already. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
