Re: [PATCH v1 net-next 0/2] net: Disallow buggy TCP transitions and IPV6_ADDRFORM.

On Sat, Sep 19, 2026 at 02:20:35PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:

On Sat, 19 Sep 2026 07:35:05 +0900 Hyunwoo Kim wrote:

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  Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")  

Hi netdev maintainers,

What is the plan for stable backports here? Does the uapi change rule
this series out for stable?

Not super well defined to be completely honest.
My gut feeling is that we should wait for it to reach Linus, and ~rc3
then pull it to LTS. Which would mean 2 months from now (mid Nov).

Once it's in a released -rc, why not have it backported then?  Why wait?  :)

That said, I am personally pretty unbothered about local exploits.
There's too many of them. And because of the serious exploits
(remote, VM escape etc) I think people are not deploying stable
much more rapidly and with less testing. I don't want to inject 
a de-feature under such condition.

Adding Greg and stable in case they have a stronger stomach.

I like to see the stable trees match Linus's whenever possible,
especially when we have known bugfixes.

Also FWIW I believe that Eric D is AFK at the moment, and he's the only
netdev maintainer subscribed to security@, AFAIU, so y'all may be aware
of more things than I am...

Not any more aware of anything other than the normal flood of crud...

thanks,

greg k-h