On Tue, 2013-05-28 at 10:47 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > Hi Dave, stable folks, > > The following set of patches fix a xen netback regression caused by the > fixes for CVE-2013-0216 / CVE-2013-0217 / XSA-39 (the original change > was several patches starting at 48856286b64e), we'd like to see them > backported to stable branches if possible. I think the fixups have now > been in Linus tree since around the start of May. > > Wei and I are happy to help with backports if necessary. Some of the > patches are cleanups which make backports easier but if you would prefer > we could produce backports without them. For 3.2, I've picked: > 27f85228 xen-netback: remove skb in xen_netbk_alloc_page 16ecba26 netback: remove redundant assignment 9eaee8be xen-netback: fix sparse warning > 2810e5b9 xen-netback: coalesce slots in TX path and fix regressions > 03393fd5 xen-netback: don't disconnect frontend when seeing oversize packet > ac69c26e xen-netback: remove redundent parameter in netbk_count_requests > 59ccb4eb xen-netback: avoid allocating variable size array on stack > 37641494 xen-netback: better names for thresholds > > In addition there are some useful related (but not security relevant) > fixes to netfront: [Omitted the 3 cosmetic changes] 3a3bfb61 net: Add net_ratelimited_function and net_<level>_ratelimited macros > 9ecd1a75 xen-netfront: reduce gso_max_size to account for max TCP header I just fixed up context for this. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway.
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