Am 28.08.2015 um 09:36 schrieb Martin KaFai Lau:
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 11:43:20AM +0200, Alexander Holler wrote:
That's why I vote to check out if it's possible/reasonable to backport this
series to the stable kernels.
I have backported to 4.0.y without major issue, so possible.
Sure, as this was likely one of the versions they've used to create the
patch.
I did try on 3.1x and gave up.
It is a lot of changes, so I don't think it is a good idea for -stable.
Depends on what you're expecting from a (stable) kernel.
The patch description mentions what happens when a system deals with a
lot of other ipv6-systems and that problem is easy to exercise and to value.
Rating the information leak is harder, some people even won't understand
that this might be a problem.
And now look at which kernel-versions are now used in new devices
(likely something <= 3.10, which is more than two years old), how long
they will be used, and make a guess about IPv6 usage in 5 years.
Anyway, I've no insights about all the politics happening in the
background (e.g. stuff like the LTSI tree) and I've just wanted raise
awareness about that (imho important) patch series.
Regards,
Alexander Holler
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