Re: [oss-security] Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] ozwpan: unchecked signed subtraction leads to DoS

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu May 28 2015 - 12:34:56 EST


On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 05:37:59PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > It's really not simpler to understand though.
>
> Greg - do you want me to resubmit a v3 for this, or does it not really
> matter and we can address this in another series? Personally, I'm
> erring on the side of wanting to get *something* merged sooner, rather
> than doing a v3.

I'd prefer to get it right, there is no rush, these are staging drivers
that no distro enables by default. Staging drivers are known to be full
of all sorts of crap, including issues like this, that's why they are in
the staging directory.

thanks,

greg k-h
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