linux-kernel - Re: Steam is broken on new kernels

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=wjZ1grLwJsGD+Fjz1_U_W47AFodBiwBX84HECUHt-guuw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 21 Jun 2019 22:28:21 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     "Pierre-Loup A. Griffais" <pgriffais@...vesoftware.com>
Cc:     Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Steam is broken on new kernels

On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 6:03 PM Pierre-Loup A. Griffais
<pgriffais@...vesoftware.com> wrote:
>
> I applied Eric's path to the tip of the branch and ran that kernel and
> the bug didn't occur through several logout / login cycles, so things
> look good at first glance. I'll keep running that kernel and report back
> if anything crops up in the future, but I believe we're good, beyond
> getting distros to ship this additional fix.

Good. It's now in my tree, so we can get it quickly into stable and
then quickly to distributions.

Greg, it's commit b6653b3629e5 ("tcp: refine memory limit test in
tcp_fragment()"), and I'm building it right now and I'll push it out
in a couple of minutes assuming nothing odd is going on.

             Linus