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

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Message-ID: <YMnFWtYf0Pye4/uo@kroah.com>
Date:   Wed, 16 Jun 2021 11:33:14 +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 11:32:41AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 12:16:52PM +0300, Amit Klein wrote:
> > Here is the patch (minus headers, description, etc. - I believe these
> > can be copied as is from the 5.x patch, but not sure about the
> > rules...). It can be applied to 4.14.236. If this is OK, I can move on
> > to 4.9 and 4.4.
> 
> I do not know "the patch" is here.
> 
> Please resend it in a format that I can apply it in.  Look at the stable
> list archives for lots of examples of backported patches, they need to
> have the original changelog description as well as the git commit id of
> the patch you are backporting, which I do not see here at all.

Also, did you test this on 4.14.y and prove that it is both needed, and
works properly?

thanks,

greg k-h