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Message-ID: <55E02987.8040908@ahsoftware.de>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 11:27:35 +0200
From: Alexander Holler <holler@...oftware.de>
To: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>,
Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>,
Kernel Team <Kernel-team@...com>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 00/11] ipv6: Only create RTF_CACHE route after
encountering pmtu exception
Am 28.08.2015 um 09:36 schrieb Martin KaFai Lau:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 11:43:20AM +0200, Alexander Holler wrote:
>> That's why I vote to check out if it's possible/reasonable to backport this
>> series to the stable kernels.
> I have backported to 4.0.y without major issue, so possible.
Sure, as this was likely one of the versions they've used to create the
patch.
> I did try on 3.1x and gave up.
>
> It is a lot of changes, so I don't think it is a good idea for -stable.
Depends on what you're expecting from a (stable) kernel.
The patch description mentions what happens when a system deals with a
lot of other ipv6-systems and that problem is easy to exercise and to value.
Rating the information leak is harder, some people even won't understand
that this might be a problem.
And now look at which kernel-versions are now used in new devices
(likely something <= 3.10, which is more than two years old), how long
they will be used, and make a guess about IPv6 usage in 5 years.
Anyway, I've no insights about all the politics happening in the
background (e.g. stuff like the LTSI tree) and I've just wanted raise
awareness about that (imho important) patch series.
Regards,
Alexander Holler
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