Better tools for kernel developers

Posted Feb 7, 2020 15:25 UTC (Fri) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
In reply to: Better tools for kernel developers by Cyberax
Parent article: Better tools for kernel developers

s/Debian/OpenSSL/ please.

Posted Feb 16, 2020 4:10 UTC (Sun) by Conan_Kudo (subscriber, #103240) [Link] (3 responses)

Well, Debian did that change, it was never present in upstream OpenSSL.

Posted Feb 17, 2020 11:04 UTC (Mon) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link] (2 responses)

Yes, but IIRC the guy asked on the OpenSSL developers' list whether it would be an OK thing to do and never got an answer.

Posted Feb 18, 2020 2:20 UTC (Tue) by andresfreund (subscriber, #69562) [Link] (1 responses)

> Yes, but IIRC the guy asked on the OpenSSL developers' list whether it would be an OK thing to do and never got an answer.

And it was flagged as depending on uninitialized data by valgrind IIRC. Without comments explaining why there's no danger etc.

Posted Dec 24, 2020 4:26 UTC (Thu) by ncm (guest, #165) [Link]

And, also, it was in Debian's packaging of OpenSSH, not SSL.