On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 1:21 PM David Miller [off-list ref] wrote:

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2020 12:43:21 -0700

quoted

If you're not willing to do the work to fix it, I will revert that
commit.

Please let me handle this situation instead of making threats, this
just got reported.

Thank you.

Also keep in mind the commit fixed a security issue, since we were
sending on the wire
garbage bytes from the kernel.

We can not simply revert it and hope for the best.

I find quite alarming vendors still use TCP MD5 "for security
reasons", but none of them have contributed to it in linux kernel
since 2018
(Time of the 'buggy patch')