From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:42290 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753370AbdGCJDS (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jul 2017 05:03:18 -0400 Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 11:03:18 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Amit Pundir Cc: Guillaume Nault , "David S . Miller" , Stable Subject: Re: [PATCH for-4.9 0/5] l2tp session lookup fixes Message-ID: <20170703090318.GA2973@kroah.com> References: <1498492039-26905-1-git-send-email-amit.pundir@linaro.org> <20170703084811.GD11757@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 02:26:11PM +0530, Amit Pundir wrote: > On 3 July 2017 at 14:18, Greg KH wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 09:17:14PM +0530, Amit Pundir wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Kindly consider/review following l2tp fixes for stable 4.9.y. > >> > >> This patchset fix race in l2tp sessions, avoid duplicate sessions > >> and probable "use after free" bugs. Here is the original submission > >> https://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg161040.html > >> > >> Cherry-picked and build tested on Linux 4.9.34 for > >> ARCH=x86/x86_64 + allmodconfig. > > > > Thanks for these, should they also go into 4.4 and older kernels? If > > so, care to make up patches for them? > > Tried on 4.4 but one or more net-namespace patches are missing in > between. So I was not sure if I should pull them and other dependent > patches (if any) into this patchset. Ok, if you don't think so, that's fine with me, it's just that the patches said they fixed something that old. If no one has complained yet about 4.4 being broken for these issues, don't worry about it :) thanks, greg k-h