On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 04:11:03PM +0200, Thomas Dreibholz wrote: > On Donnerstag 16 September 2010, Vlad Yasevich wrote: > > On 09/15/2010 03:43 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Thanks, but please send patches via email, not via bugzilla. > > > Documentation/SubmittingPatches has some tips. Suitable recipients for > > > this patch are, from the MAINTAINERS file: > > > > > > M: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@xxxxxx> > > > M: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > L: linux-sctp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > but please just send it as a reply-to-all to this email so that everyone > > > knows wht's happening. > > > > > > I'd suggest that you also add the line > > > > > > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > to the end of the changelog so that we don't forget to consider the > > > patch for backporting. > > > > Hi Andrew > > > > There is a much simpler solution to this problem that I posted to netdev > > today. > > Dear all, > > Vlad's patch solves the problem. I hope this patch can go into the mailine > kernel soon, in order to get distribution kernels fixed as soon as possible. It > is relatively easy to trigger the denial of service problem, making all > systems providing SCTP-based services vulnerable to a remote DoS attack. > > I have also been able to reproduce the problem with kernel 2.6.32, i.e. at > least all kernels from 2.6.32 to 2.6.36 are affected. Is this in Linus's tree now? If so, does anyone have the git commit id? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sctp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
