On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 6:26 PM Holger Hoffstätte holger@applied-asynchrony.com wrote:
On 2024-06-04 17:44, Greg KH wrote:
On Tue, Jun 04, 2024 at 04:56:24PM +0200, Holger Hoffstätte wrote:
Just ${Subject} since it's a fix for a potential security footgun/DOS, whereever commit 378979e94e95 ("tcp: remove 64 KByte limit for initial tp->rcv_wnd value") has been queued up.
Only applies to 6.9.y, have backports for older kernels?
No, sorry - I'm just the messenger here and moved everything to 6.9 already. Cc'ing Jakub and Eric.
My understanding is that the previous commit was a performance enhancement, so if this turns out to be too difficult then maybe 378979e94e95 ("tcp: remove 64 KByte limit for initial tp->rcv_wnd value") should just not be merged either. I have both patches on 6.9 but really cannot say whether they should go to older releases.
Sorry I am missing the prior emails, 378979e94e95 does not seem security related to me, only one small TCP change.
What is the problem ?