This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net/tcp: Don't consider TCP_CLOSE in TCP_AO_ESTABLISHED to the 6.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: net-tcp-don-t-consider-tcp_close-in-tcp_ao_established.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.