From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
To: "YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明" <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH 2.6.21-stable] [IPV6]: Restore semantics of Routing Header processing.
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 09:22:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070511162243.GC3516@sequoia.sous-sol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070512.011728.16743460.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
* YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 (yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org) wrote:
> The "fix" for emerging security threats was overkill and it broke
> basic semantic of IPv6 routing header processing. We should assume
> RT0 (or even RT2, depends on configuration) as "unknown" RH type so
> that we
> - silently ignore the routing header if segleft == 0
> - or, send ICMPv6 Parameter Problem message back to the sender,
> otherwise.
Does that mean this one has received testing and is good for -stable
now, or does it need some bake time?
thanks,
-chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-11 16:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-11 16:17 [PATCH 2.6.21-stable] [IPV6]: Restore semantics of Routing Header processing YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2007-05-11 16:22 ` Chris Wright [this message]
2007-05-11 16:28 ` [stable] " YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2007-05-11 16:29 ` Chris Wright
2007-05-17 1:46 ` Chris Wright
[not found] ` <20070516.191013.102573773.davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-17 2:12 ` Chris Wright
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