Re: Linux 5.1.11

Greg KH
2019-06-17T19:14:30Z

On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 08:45:36PM +0200, François Valenduc wrote:
> Le 17/06/19 à 20:09, Greg KH a écrit :
> > I'm announcing the release of the 5.1.11 kernel.
> >
> > All users of the 5.1 kernel series must upgrade.
> >
> > The updated 5.1.y git tree can be found at:
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-5.1.y
> > and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser:
> > https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
> >
> > ------------
> >
> > Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 8 ++++++++
> > Makefile | 2 +-
> > include/linux/tcp.h | 4 ++++
> > include/net/netns/ipv4.h | 1 +
> > include/net/tcp.h | 2 ++
> > include/uapi/linux/snmp.h | 1 +
> > net/ipv4/proc.c | 1 +
> > net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c | 11 +++++++++++
> > net/ipv4/tcp.c | 1 +
> > net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++------
> > net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 1 +
> > net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 10 +++++++---
> > net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c | 1 +
> > 13 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> >
> > Eric Dumazet (4):
> > tcp: limit payload size of sacked skbs
> > tcp: tcp_fragment() should apply sane memory limits
> > tcp: add tcp_min_snd_mss sysctl
> > tcp: enforce tcp_min_snd_mss in tcp_mtu_probing()
> >
> > Greg Kroah-Hartman (1):
> > Linux 5.1.11
> >
>
> It seems a bit strange, it contains only 4 patches, and there was no
> review or I didn't find it. Is this some kind of urgent bugfix release ?

Yes, see:
https://github.com/Netflix/security-bulletins/blob/master/advisories/third-party/2019-001.md
for the details.