netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 RESEND] net/dccp: validate Reset/Close/CloseReq in DCCP

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Message-ID: <20251103154439.58c3664c@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2025 15:44:39 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Yizhou Zhao <zhaoyz24@...ls.tsinghua.edu.cn>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 RESEND] net/dccp: validate Reset/Close/CloseReq in
 DCCP_REQUESTING

On Mon,  3 Nov 2025 10:15:57 +0800 Yizhou Zhao wrote:
> Following your instruction, we read the documentation at https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html.
> We found that the stable documentation normally requires an upstream
> commit before inclusion in stable, but here an upstream commit cannot
> exist because the subsystem was removed. Could you please confirm
> that this can proceed as a stable-only fix for the affected LTS
> branches?

Yes.