netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next v8 00/12] bpf: More sock

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Message-ID: <1516813089.3715.22.camel@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 24 Jan 2018 08:58:09 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...com>, Lawrence Brakmo <brakmo@...com>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Kernel Team <kernel-team@...com>, Blake Matheny <bmatheny@...com>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>,
        Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v8 00/12] bpf: More sock_ops callbacks

On Wed, 2018-01-24 at 08:48 -0800, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On 1/24/18 7:48 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > On Wed, 2018-01-24 at 07:27 -0800, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> > > 
> > > Most of the time, Yes, but it's the other way around this time.
> > > I specifically asked Larry to do it this way, since net tree is
> > > practically closed (only critical fixes allowed).
> > > When 4.15 is released on Sunday we'll send this patch
> > > independently to 4.15 and 4.14
> > > 
> > 
> > How hard would it be to put the fix first in the series then ?
> > If this proves complex, then maybe we have a bigger problem.
> 
> you mean to put patch 4 to be first in the series ?
> I don't think that matters. It applies fine as-is on net tree
> and builds without issues. I only need to double check that
> nothing else needed before adding it to stable queue.

Yes, this is exactly what we need.

We had a major issue with this bug, and we are lucky that we disabled
unpriv eBPF for other reasons.