Re: Patch "udp: perform source validation for mcast early demux" has been added to the 4.13-stable tree

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From: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 09:31:43 +0200

> On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 09:16:06AM +0200, Paolo Abeni wrote:
>> On Mon, 2017-10-09 at 10:54 +0200, Greg KH wrote:
>> > On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 10:02:14AM +0200, Paolo Abeni wrote:
>> > > On Mon, 2017-10-09 at 09:57 +0200, Greg KH wrote:
>> > > > On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 09:37:31AM +0200, Paolo Abeni wrote:
>> > > > > On Mon, 2017-10-09 at 09:35 +0200, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> > > > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
>> > > > > > 
>> > > > > >     udp: perform source validation for mcast early demux
>> > > > > > 
>> > > > > > to the 4.13-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:
>> > > > > >      udp-perform-source-validation-for-mcast-early-demux.patch
>> > > > > > and it can be found in the queue-4.13 subdirectory.
>> > > > > > 
>> > > > > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
>> > > > > > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>> > > > > 
>> > > > > Please, keep this one on-hold. It needs a relevant follow-up I'm going
>> > > > > to post soon!
>> > > > 
>> > > > Can I keep the patch before this one in the series "IPv4: early demux
>> > > > can return an error code"?  Or should I hold off on both of these for
>> > > > now?
>> > > 
>> > > AFAIK the patch "IPv4: early demux can return an error code" does not
>> > > have any issue - it's just useless without this one - I guess it can
>> > > stay in.
>> > 
>> > Ok, I've now moved this one out, thanks for letting me know.
>> > 
>> > And if you happen to remember when/if a fix for this goes into the tree,
>> > that would be most helpful :)
>> 
>> Sure! the fix just entered Linus's tree: commit 996b44fcef8f ("udp: fix
>> bcast packet reception")
> 
> Great!  Dave, mind if I take this now, or do you want me to wait for the
> next round of networking patches.

Feel free to take this now, thanks!



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