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* [PATCH 0/7] tcp: bugs and cleanup for 2.6.34-rc1
@ 2010-03-11 11:35 William Allen Simpson
  2010-03-11 11:41 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] net: tcp_header_len_th and tcp_option_len_th William Allen Simpson
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From: William Allen Simpson @ 2010-03-11 11:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linus Torvalds, Andrew Morton
  Cc: Linux Kernel Developers, Linux Kernel Network Developers,
	David Miller

I'd have thought that there would be greater interest about patching
crashing bugs, signed versus unsigned (underflow) bugs, TCP DoS bugs,
TCP data corruption, and TCP performance problems....

There's been ample warning.  Zero-day security issues will be reported
to the usual announcement lists.  In particular, these 0day exploits
affect systems as far back as the 2005 changeover to git.

Combination of patches reported in October, November, December, January,
and February, for 2.6.32, 2.6.33, and now 2.6.34.

This code has had previous review and several months of limited testing.

Some portions were removed during the various TCPCT part 1 patch splits,
then were cut off by the sudden unexpected end of that merge window.
[03 Dec 2009]  I've restarted the sub-numbering (again).

Of particular interest are the TCPCT header extensions that already
appear in the next phase of testing with other platforms.  These patches
allow correct reception without data corruption.

The remainder of the original TCPCT part 2 will be merged with part 3.

[Updated to 2010 Mar 08 2.6.34-rc1.]

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2010-03-11 11:35 [PATCH 0/7] tcp: bugs and cleanup for 2.6.34-rc1 William Allen Simpson
2010-03-11 11:41 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] net: tcp_header_len_th and tcp_option_len_th William Allen Simpson
2010-03-11 11:53 ` [PATCH v4 2/7] net: remove old tcp_optlen function William Allen Simpson
2010-03-11 11:54   ` William Allen Simpson
2010-03-12  0:26   ` Simon Horman
2010-03-12 13:21     ` William Allen Simpson
2010-03-12 13:25   ` William Allen Simpson
2010-03-12 17:46     ` Dan Carpenter
2010-03-12 23:05       ` William Allen Simpson
2010-03-13  9:11         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-03-13 11:12           ` William Allen Simpson
2010-03-13 11:24             ` Eric Dumazet
2010-03-11 12:08 ` [PATCH v6 3/7] tcp: harmonize tcp_vx_rcv header length assumptions William Allen Simpson
2010-03-11 12:24 ` [PATCH v6 4/7] tcp: input header length, prediction, and timestamp bugs William Allen Simpson
2010-03-11 12:31 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] TCPCT part 2e: accept SYNACK data William Allen Simpson
2010-03-11 12:48 ` [PATCH v6 6/7] TCPCT part 2f: cleanup tcp_parse_options William Allen Simpson
2010-03-11 13:06 ` [PATCH v8 7/7] TCPCT part 2g: parse cookie pair and 64-bit timestamp William Allen Simpson
2010-03-11 15:01 ` [PATCH 0/7] tcp: bugs and cleanup for 2.6.34-rc1 Eric Dumazet
2010-03-11 17:38   ` William Allen Simpson
2010-03-11 18:14     ` Joe Perches
2010-03-12 13:27       ` William Allen Simpson
2010-03-13  5:29     ` Américo Wang

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