From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7D79C4D6C31; Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:23:11 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1790011392; cv=none; b=dhZFfO32XaxQ11JULB/gYYibTb+t9uZEozbTUKYS04vpw1OuZ2ZTiiDImWJG2+T+iV3TYjjAqM4rkOQrvmwQ3Xn+9ZcIobMOHnOi0ZzgSF3aO0+1Swk8hHWacp+8Zrv4qEAugIKN1DmU7dVFs+zlupD0u27YNi3EWE6GHSdnNoQ= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1790011392; c=relaxed/simple; bh=JiLNX98jI4OtQal/ERNc5yQcQ2+ueGwvfnM/h6YpGO0=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=VopYWHjGaHwEm5lTi+lHkCugejQSDuhk1OTwQCwFUMnFwkkqpmhQxxD//RgKkhKN/iv2T0q/wyMQKE6HtttgXl4Pf/CW3k5sTgot/C5rlHXuV2ojI+hf+/U/nvhbTb2UjaAHGq4KiQeKgLVujXF7ktKmmreANca+T57Zrzs+Yy4= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=fF/RajFh; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="fF/RajFh" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A844B1F000FF; Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:23:10 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1790011391; bh=j0AIO/Y0DvvHriDnEfGdu7esqUAgVEM5Xu8m1k0M+G8=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References; b=fF/RajFhhe6ROJzIqV3CiHpAlTCkjsg9g9NXpUMw5JigTRSf34paMjsKjolCG20lL 74UoZk2/i1D89W2HhNWKFA4QdvRyKd7il4jLOh2flVDHhBkpwLKpgf6sAcwEQpLEma r775H5cSVsISMXoH29QvHKXJG56XEyI3uzuQ7J4XJcTJtqGnoLpLHvb4hTzjdsn2ot W7c9sHf6r/kf/3b5cRxmTDVbM1ptpKq5Sn4ghZGRkDDnhwcicy9cL0GCUBfNPlCXCq ugd9fskOHXJ3/OctQwjaNe4aUnbhA/4DtXGcBLX2Son/zx9dgIAeKlwfJr0+mya9RE OzebGMP2ZtfBQ== Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2026 10:23:10 -0700 From: Jakub Kicinski To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Hyunwoo Kim , Kuniyuki Iwashima , "David S . Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Paolo Abeni , Neal Cardwell , Willem de Bruijn , David Ahern , Ido Schimmel , Simon Horman , Kuniyuki Iwashima , netdev@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 net-next 0/2] net: Disallow buggy TCP transitions and IPV6_ADDRFORM. Message-ID: <20260921102310.49c9e008@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <2026092048-splashed-trespass-d2da@gregkh> References: <20260904033543.2635540-1-kuniyu@google.com> <20260919142035.4d0e11a8@kernel.org> <2026092048-splashed-trespass-d2da@gregkh> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sun, 20 Sep 2026 09:45:14 +0200 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Sat, Sep 19, 2026 at 02:20:35PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > > On Sat, 19 Sep 2026 07:35:05 +0900 Hyunwoo Kim wrote: > > > What is the plan for stable backports here? Does the uapi change rule > > > this series out for stable? > > > > Not super well defined to be completely honest. > > My gut feeling is that we should wait for it to reach Linus, and ~rc3 > > then pull it to LTS. Which would mean 2 months from now (mid Nov). > > Once it's in a released -rc, why not have it backported then? Why wait? :) To be clear - it's in -next right now. > > That said, I am personally pretty unbothered about local exploits. > > There's too many of them. And because of the serious exploits > > (remote, VM escape etc) I think people are not deploying stable > > much more rapidly and with less testing. I don't want to inject > > a de-feature under such condition. > > > > Adding Greg and stable in case they have a stronger stomach. > > I like to see the stable trees match Linus's whenever possible, > especially when we have known bugfixes. > > > Also FWIW I believe that Eric D is AFK at the moment, and he's the only > > netdev maintainer subscribed to security@, AFAIU, so y'all may be aware > > of more things than I am... > > Not any more aware of anything other than the normal flood of crud... Okay then, I think we should just wait for the merge window, and reevaluate if^w as new bugs show up. Hyunwoo, if you have bugs in the queue that are solved in -next I'd hold off on sending the fixes unless they can be triggered remotely or from a VM.