From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet 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 Message-ID: <1378247352.7360.50.camel@edumazet-glaptop> References: <1378229352-9779-1-git-send-email-dborkman@redhat.com> <1378230513.7360.37.camel@edumazet-glaptop> <20130903194620.GE8262@mail.gmail.com> <1378240517.7360.41.camel@edumazet-glaptop> <20130903215915.GF8262@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Daniel Borkmann , davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, Jiri Benc To: Jean Sacren Return-path: Received: from mail-pd0-f182.google.com ([209.85.192.182]:60615 "EHLO mail-pd0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754129Ab3ICW3O (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Sep 2013 18:29:14 -0400 Received: by mail-pd0-f182.google.com with SMTP id r10so6627440pdi.41 for ; Tue, 03 Sep 2013 15:29:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20130903215915.GF8262@mail.gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2013-09-03 at 15:59 -0600, Jean Sacren wrote: > From: Eric Dumazet > 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.