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[PATCH 2/3] econet: Move to staging



Recent review has revealed several bugs in obscure protocol
implementations that can be exploited by local users for denial of
service or privilege escalation.

The econet protocol (PF_ECONET) is unmaintained.  There appear to be
no published applications for it, and it has never progressed beyond
'experimental' status.

This protocol generally should not be enabled by distributions, since
the cost of a security flaw affecting all installed systems presumably
outweighs the benefit to the few (if any) legitimate users.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
 drivers/staging/Kconfig |    2 ++
 net/Kconfig             |    1 -
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/Kconfig
index dd94cb2..a9dd984 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/staging/Kconfig
@@ -177,5 +177,7 @@ source "drivers/staging/speakup/Kconfig"
 
 source "net/decnet/Kconfig"
 
+source "net/econet/Kconfig"
+
 endif # !STAGING_EXCLUDE_BUILD
 endif # STAGING
diff --git a/net/Kconfig b/net/Kconfig
index 9e4fc29..059c9f1 100644
--- a/net/Kconfig
+++ b/net/Kconfig
@@ -205,7 +205,6 @@ source "net/ipx/Kconfig"
 source "drivers/net/appletalk/Kconfig"
 source "net/x25/Kconfig"
 source "net/lapb/Kconfig"
-source "net/econet/Kconfig"
 source "net/wanrouter/Kconfig"
 source "net/phonet/Kconfig"
 source "net/ieee802154/Kconfig"
-- 
1.7.2.3




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