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

From: Maxim Konovalov (maxim_at_macomnet.ru)
Date: 10/31/05

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To: "Cai, Quanqing" <caiquanqing@gmail.com>

    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. 

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Maxim Konovalov
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