Am 28.08.2015 um 11:27 schrieb Alexander Holler:

Am 28.08.2015 um 09:36 schrieb Martin KaFai Lau:

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On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 11:43:20AM +0200, Alexander Holler wrote:

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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.

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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.

Not to speak about phones, but those are most likely a problem of one 
specific company  ;)

Regards,

Alexander Holler