netdev - Re: [patch 0/8 2.6.32] CVE-2010-4251: packet backlog can get too large

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Message-Id: <20111113.222410.315752972470589717.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 13 Nov 2011 22:24:10 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ben@...adent.org.uk
Cc:	dan.carpenter@...cle.com, stable@...r.kernel.org, greg@...ah.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, yi.zhu@...el.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [patch 0/8 2.6.32] CVE-2010-4251: packet backlog can get too
 large

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 23:29:09 +0000

> But you've previously said that you are not submitting networking
> patches to the longterm series.  Did you change your mind?

No, I in fact haven't.

But I will say that if distributions want to apply this thing, that's
fine, but it doesn't automatically make it a good idea for -stable
to take it too.
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