linux-kernel - Re: patch 4.8 "net: handle no dst on skb in icmp6

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Date:   Sun, 8 Jan 2017 15:52:22 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Bronek Kozicki <brok@...mcop.net>
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: patch 4.8 "net: handle no dst on skb in icmp6_send"

On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 02:28:13PM +0000, Bronek Kozicki wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> any particular reason why this fix https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=79dc7e3f1cd323be4c81aa1a94faa1b3ed987fb2
> was missed from stable 4.8 line? Apparently the bug being fixed has its own
> https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9919
> 
> Thank you for your hard work and best regards

4.8 will be end-of-life on Monday (tomorrow), so I doubt this means
much, but please remember, for networking patches, the networking
maintainer is the one that sends them to me, so you need to ask this
type of thing on the netdev mailing list.

thanks,

greg k-h