Re: Patch "vsock/virtio: fix potential unbounded skb queue" has been added to the 6.6-stable tree

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, May 15, 2026 at 11:36:12AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2026 at 05:21:53PM +0200, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> > 
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > 
> >     vsock/virtio: fix potential unbounded skb queue
> > 
> > to the 6.6-stable tree which can be found at:
> >     http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> > 
> > The filename of the patch is:
> >      vsock-virtio-fix-potential-unbounded-skb-queue.patch
> > and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory.
> > 
> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> > please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
> > 
> 
> Yea I have some doubts. It fixes the DoS at the cost of losing
> messages. We are trying to fix that upstream now, maybe wait
> for that?

being bug compatible is good!  :(

What's the status of that fix?  Should it be reverted elsewhere?

thanks,

greg k-h