netdev - Re: [REGRESSION] Userland interface breaks due to hard HFSC

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2023 08:06:46 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Pedro Tammela <pctammela@...atatu.com>, markovicbudimir@...il.com
Cc: Christian Theune <ct@...ingcircus.io>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, Linux regressions mailing list
 <regressions@...ts.linux.dev>, davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com,
 pabeni@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] Userland interface breaks due to hard HFSC_FSC
 requirement

On Sat, 7 Oct 2023 06:10:42 +0200 Christian Theune wrote:
> The idea of not bricking your system by upgrading the Linux kernel
> seems to apply here. IMHO the change could maybe done in a way that
> keeps the system running but informs the user that something isn’t
> working as intended?

Herm, how did we get this far without CCing the author of the patch.
Adding Budimir.

Pedro, Budimir, any idea what the original bug was? There isn't much
info in the commit message.