kern/67919: Why nobody take serious to fix this bug?

[Igor Sysoev]

The following reply was made to PR kern/67919; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru>
To: Maxim Konovalov <maxim at macomnet.ru>
Cc: "Cai, Quanqing" <caiquanqing at gmail.com>, freebsd-current at freebsd.org,
        bug-followup at freebsd.org, Edwin Groothuis <edwin at mavetju.org>,
        Uwe Doering <gemini at geminix.org>
Subject: Re: kern/67919: Why nobody take serious to fix this bug?
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:26:56 +0300 (MSK)

 On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Maxim Konovalov wrote:
 
 > On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, 21:28-0800, Cai, Quanqing wrote:
 >
 >> Today I happened to read this message on freebsd-stable:
 >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-October/019086.html
 >>
 >> After I read all messages and related links, I feel so frustrating,
 >> why nobody take serious to fix this bug even we have a patch for it?
 >> I can repeat this bug on 7.0-CURRENT and 6.0-RC1 easily as a normal
 >> user! System goes no response so I have to power cycle it. The patch
 >> made by Uwe Doering actually works well. This bug looks like a
 >> security hole to me:( If you guys don't like this patch, please give
 >> out a reason and come out a better patch or solution.
 >
 > I was told the patch is incorrect.  It works in certain cases but
 > incorrect in general.
 
 Why is it incorrect ? I'm using it for year.
 
 
 Igor Sysoev
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