From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Jean Sacren <sakiwit@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>,
davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: ipv6: tcp: fix potential use after free in tcp_v6_do_rcv
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 15:29:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1378247352.7360.50.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130903215915.GF8262@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 2013-09-03 at 15:59 -0600, Jean Sacren wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 13:35:17 -0700
> >
> > How did you get your conclusion ?
>
> If one changes one line of code, doesn't one own that line?
>
'Owning' like he is the guy who can sell it ? OK I understand now
so many people send 'cleanups' ;)
Someone adding a space is not responsible for the real bug.
You'll have to be very careful to do proper attributions.
This is _critical_ for proper stable submissions.
In this case we want the fix to reach linux-3.4 and further versions.
The commit you pointed out was for linux-3.9, and added no bug.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-03 22:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-03 17:29 [PATCH net] net: ipv6: tcp: fix potential use after free in tcp_v6_do_rcv Daniel Borkmann
2013-09-03 17:48 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-09-03 19:46 ` Jean Sacren
2013-09-03 20:35 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-09-03 21:59 ` Jean Sacren
2013-09-03 22:25 ` Daniel Borkmann
2013-09-03 22:29 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2013-09-04 0:51 ` Jean Sacren
2013-09-04 6:26 ` Jiri Benc
2013-09-04 18:57 ` David Miller
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