From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 878583F3298; Sun, 20 Sep 2026 10:11:10 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1789899071; cv=none; b=fu10CIg0O7Hp7j3sEei88K6E6YT+fprWD5M5InKhbHD3+mf8nI0hlSywEzH6FHm5gw1//LSvF0iLCFvpDxRdpOTgfP/Hkt/tF2wfhNquFRzPDSxruk7mzDd+6cH2VLLp73fuQxoltYRSlkJgCsjHDKeqL3NHiKNGcB2xc388MJM= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1789899071; c=relaxed/simple; bh=2tIpJtLwgbJnNgwuF5UdNkvi2kLXZt5YsvQ/gOhIPsE=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=GjIDDsUnf9NDm8IMszsXozAMtyeh/yFVryGrs8XoczFpMtIl7+AJc9FK8oOTOZas7klFHTf6cgG5s+OUj3M4FLVjcC/LZxt7B5hogYwwwDbr1xcaN4mabDPy/DYQ+f7BCKNwCRxEhSV/brE7E3Hm1Vxu7Re5eeQY3D7OvKqCQ68= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=lpCbIOcN; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="lpCbIOcN" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7863D1F000FF; Sun, 20 Sep 2026 10:11:09 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1789899070; bh=/26KFgiBxppLZooT5+1vSUzRmBgjxV2CEAJs4q740vg=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; b=lpCbIOcNNCOYwjYxt9DBNZ7s8aCkf518UUtFj0cU5MaTuzQ4p7J6p6JNx0JW6y1Ad H5un1/1p5NzZUqyg/90rBExmll9Isvd9Wu/KimFTTekOAiXoR5Umhb5GVm3e84+2EQ JMwgoAlDEWZHbYKJRMopXHTs6Gw0UvVwiUDqCw5g= Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2026 09:45:14 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Jakub Kicinski Cc: Hyunwoo Kim , Kuniyuki Iwashima , "David S . Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Paolo Abeni , Neal Cardwell , Willem de Bruijn , David Ahern , Ido Schimmel , Simon Horman , Kuniyuki Iwashima , netdev@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 net-next 0/2] net: Disallow buggy TCP transitions and IPV6_ADDRFORM. Message-ID: <2026092048-splashed-trespass-d2da@gregkh> References: <20260904033543.2635540-1-kuniyu@google.com> <20260919142035.4d0e11a8@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260919142035.4d0e11a8@kernel.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