Re: [PATCH 6.9 000/368] 6.9.4-rc2 review

[Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>]

On 11. 06. 24, 7:45, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 09. 06. 24, 13:41, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.9.4 release.
>> There are 368 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
>> to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
>> let me know.
>>
>> Responses should be made by Tue, 11 Jun 2024 11:36:08 +0000.
>> Anything received after that time might be too late.
>>
>> The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
>>     https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/stable-review/patch-6.9.4-rc2.gz
>> or in the git tree and branch at:
>>     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.9.y
>> and the diffstat can be found below.
> 
> Maybe it was noted somewhere already, but I was forced by our machinery 
> to include this too:
> +Subject: tcp: reduce accepted window in NEW_SYN_RECV state
> +Git-commit: f4dca95fc0f6350918f2e6727e35b41f7f86fcce
> +Patch-mainline: 6.10-rc2
> +
> +Jason commit made checks against ACK sequence less strict
> +and can be exploited by attackers to establish spoofed flows
> +with less probes.
> 
> which makes sense to me.

Forget about this, you dropped 378979e94e953c207 in -rc2 in:
commit f11c1a69cc6b202f454d5e585b6917ce2873bcc9
Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Sun Jun 9 13:26:26 2024 +0200

     drop more patches



All is good then.

> thanks,-- 
js
suse labs