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

Maxim Konovalov maxim at macomnet.ru
Mon Oct 31 03:42:06 PST 2005


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.

-- 
Maxim Konovalov


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