Re: [PATCH v1 net-next 0/2] net: Disallow buggy TCP transitions and IPV6_ADDRFORM.

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2026 at 02:20:35PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Sep 2026 07:35:05 +0900 Hyunwoo Kim wrote:
> > >   Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")  
> > 
> > Hi netdev maintainers,
> > 
> > What is the plan for stable backports here? Does the uapi change rule
> > this series out for stable?
> 
> Not super well defined to be completely honest.
> My gut feeling is that we should wait for it to reach Linus, and ~rc3
> then pull it to LTS. Which would mean 2 months from now (mid Nov).

Once it's in a released -rc, why not have it backported then?  Why wait?  :)

> That said, I am personally pretty unbothered about local exploits.
> There's too many of them. And because of the serious exploits
> (remote, VM escape etc) I think people are not deploying stable
> much more rapidly and with less testing. I don't want to inject 
> a de-feature under such condition.
> 
> Adding Greg and stable in case they have a stronger stomach.

I like to see the stable trees match Linus's whenever possible,
especially when we have known bugfixes.

> Also FWIW I believe that Eric D is AFK at the moment, and he's the only
> netdev maintainer subscribed to security@, AFAIU, so y'all may be aware
> of more things than I am...

Not any more aware of anything other than the normal flood of crud...

thanks,

greg k-h