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

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Message-ID: <20111114181150.GA17614@kroah.com>
Date:	Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:11:50 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	ben@...adent.org.uk, dan.carpenter@...cle.com,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, 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

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 10:24:10PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for letting me know, I'll drop these from my to-apply mbox.

greg k-h
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