linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5.4 175/244] inet: use bigger hash table for IP ID generation

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Message-ID: <YMoRZDBIua3ionOW@kroah.com>
Date:   Wed, 16 Jun 2021 16:57:40 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Amit Klein <aksecurity@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.4 175/244] inet: use bigger hash table for IP ID
 generation

On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 09:16:12AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 10:02:44AM +0300, Amit Klein wrote:
> >  Hi Greg et al.
> > 
> > I see that you backported this patch (increasing the IP ID hash table size)
> > to the newer LTS branches more than a month ago. But I don't see that it
> > was backported to older LTS branches (4.19, 4.14, 4.9, 4.4). Is this
> > intentional?
> 
> It applies cleanly to 4.19, but not the older ones.  If you think it is
> needed there for those kernels, please provide a working backport that
> we can apply.

It breaks the build on 4.19, which is why I didn't apply it there, so I
would need a working version for that tree as well.

thanks,

greg k-h