On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 1:07 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 08:21:43AM -0700, Christoph Paasch wrote:
> > Hello Greg & Sasha,
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 12:20 AM Christoph Paasch <cpaasch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > The above referenced commit has problems on older non-rbTree kernels.
> > >
> > > AFAICS, the commit has only been backported to 4.14 up to now, but the
> > > commit that fdfc5c8594c2 is fixing (namely ce5ec440994b ("tcp: ensure epoll
> > > edge trigger wakeup when write queue is empty"), is in v4.2.
> > >
> > > Christoph Paasch (2):
> > > tcp: Reset send_head when removing skb from write-queue
> > > tcp: Don't dequeue SYN/FIN-segments from write-queue
> >
> > I'm checking in on these two patches for the 4.14 stable-queue.
> > Especially the panic fixed by patch 2 is pretty easy to trigger :-/
>
> Dude, it's been less than a week. And it's the middle of the merge
> window. And it's the week after Plumbers and Maintainer's summit.
>
> Relax...
Sorry!
> I'll go queue these up now, but I am worried about them, given this
> total mess the backports seem to have caused.
>
> Why isn't this needed in 4.9.y and 4.4.y also?
>From what I see, commit fdfc5c8594c2 has not been backported to 4.9
and older. But I can imagine that eventually it will have to be
backported (I guess Eric can confirm or deny).
If it gets backported to 4.9 and 4.4, my 2 patches will have to come with them.
Christoph
