netdev - Re: [PATCH net]: ipv6: drop frames with attached skb->sk in forwarding

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Date:	Mon, 14 Mar 2016 15:41:11 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Francesco Ruggeri <fruggeri@...stanetworks.com>
Cc:	fruggeri@...sta.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	sasha.levin@...cle.com, davem@...emloft.net,
	hannes@...essinduktion.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net]: ipv6: drop frames with attached skb->sk in
 forwarding

On Mon, 2016-03-14 at 15:32 -0700, Francesco Ruggeri wrote:
> Should 9ef2e965e554 ["ipv6: drop frames with attached skb->sk in forwarding"]
> be considered for stable?
> It did address a crash in ip6_skb_dst_mtu that I was seeing in 3.18, where
> an incoming packet found an inet_timewait_sock in tcp_v6_early_demux
> but was later ip6_forward'ed (the local address that had been used for
> the tcp connection had been moved out of the router).

Yes, definitely stable material.