netdev - Re: [PATCH stable 4.4 0/9] fix SegmentSmack in stable branch (CVE-2018-5390)

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Date:   Thu, 16 Aug 2018 18:20:38 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
Cc:     maowenan <maowenan@...wei.com>, dwmw2@...radead.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
        edumazet@...gle.com, davem@...emloft.net, ycheng@...gle.com,
        jdw@...zon.de, stable@...r.kernel.org, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH stable 4.4 0/9] fix SegmentSmack in stable branch
 (CVE-2018-5390)

On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 06:06:16PM +0200, Michal Kubecek wrote:
> > If not, we can go from there and evaluate this much larger patch
> > series.  But let's try the simple thing first.
> 
> At high packet rates (say 30K pkt/s and more), we can still saturate the
> CPU. This is also mentioned in the announcement with claim that switch
> to rbtree based queue would be necessary to fully address that. My tests
> seem to confirm that but I'm still not sure it is worth backporting
> something as intrusive into stable 4.4.

No, it is not.  If you worry about those things, you should not be
running a 4.4 kernel, use 4.14 or newer please.

thanks,

greg k-h