From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [patch 0/8 2.6.32] CVE-2010-4251: packet backlog can get too large Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:11:50 -0800 Message-ID: <20111114181150.GA17614@kroah.com> References: <20111113201336.GA1362@elgon.mountain> <20111113.155851.2167389434844487922.davem@davemloft.net> <1321226949.3059.13.camel@deadeye> <20111113.222410.315752972470589717.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: ben@decadent.org.uk, dan.carpenter@oracle.com, stable@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, yi.zhu@intel.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:42802 "EHLO out2.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755767Ab1KNSOL (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:14:11 -0500 Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.42]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37D8120AB8 for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:14:11 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20111113.222410.315752972470589717.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 10:24:10PM -0500, David Miller wrote: > From: Ben Hutchings > Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 23:29:09 +0000 > > > But you've previously said that you are not submitting networking > > patches to the longterm series. Did you change your mind? > > No, I in fact haven't. > > But I will say that if distributions want to apply this thing, that's > fine, but it doesn't automatically make it a good idea for -stable > to take it too. Thanks for letting me know, I'll drop these from my to-apply mbox. greg k-h