netdev - Re: [PATCH stable 4.4 1/9] Revert "tcp: detect malicious patterns in tcp_collapse_ofo

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Date:   Thu, 16 Aug 2018 08:04:13 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     maowenan <maowenan@...wei.com>
Cc:     dwmw2@...radead.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        eric.dumazet@...il.com, edumazet@...gle.com, davem@...emloft.net,
        ycheng@...gle.com, jdw@...zon.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH stable 4.4 1/9] Revert "tcp: detect malicious patterns in
 tcp_collapse_ofo_queue()"

On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 09:55:42AM +0800, maowenan wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2018/8/15 21:18, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 09:21:00PM +0800, Mao Wenan wrote:
> >> This reverts commit dc6ae4dffd656811dee7151b19545e4cd839d378.
> > 
> > I need a reason why, and a signed-off-by line :(
> 
> stable 4.4 only back port two patches to fix CVE-2018-5390, I have tested they can't
> fix fully because of simple queue used in lower version, so we need change simple queue
> to RB tree to finally resolve. But 9f5afeae have many conflicts with tcp: detect malicious patterns in tcp_collapse_ofo_queue()
> and tcp: avoid collapses in tcp_prune_queue() if possible, and there are patch series from Eric in mainline to fix CVE-2018-5390,
> so I need revert part of patches in stable 4.4 firstly, then apply 9f5afeae, and reapply five patches from Eric.
> 9f5afeae tcp: use an RB tree for ooo receive queue

Then please put this information in the changelog text, that's what we
need to see here.

thanks,

greg k-h