On Mon, Sep 1, 2025 at 12:10 PM David Ranch [off-list ref] wrote:

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Keep calm, I am just saying that the bisection pointed to a fine commit,
but it took a _lot_ of time to root-cause the issue.

And the bug is in ax25, not in Paolo patch.

Please test the fix, and thank me for actually working on a fix, while
I have more urgent work on my plate.

Much appreciated for your work on this patch but I'm curious, is the
core issue here on this other committer's patch or just weaknesses in
the original AX.25 stack code?

Plain day-0 bug in ax25 code.

It was probably not working well with packet capture (tcpdump), with
possibly silent corruptions.

The kind of bugs that can be exploited by malicious actors.