On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 08:25:22AM -0800, David Miller wrote: > From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 06:50:45 +0100 > > > Le mardi 07 décembre 2010 à 20:16 -0800, Greg KH a écrit : > >> On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 05:22:34PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > > > >> > > From: Robin Holt <[email protected]> > >> > > > >> > > [ Problem was fixed differently upstream. -DaveM ] > >> > > >> > Gaah. I'd really like to see more of a description for things like > >> > this. A commit ID for the alternate fix, or at least a few words about > >> > the different fix or reason why upstream doesn't need the stable > >> > commit. > >> > >> I'll let David confirm this, he's the one who sent it to me :) > > > > upstream uses commit 8d987e5c7510 (net: avoid limits overflow) > > > > This commit is a bit more untrusive for stable kernels : > > > > It depends on : > > a9febbb4bd13 (sysctl: min/max bounds are optional) > > 27b3d80a7b6a (sysctl: fix min/max handling in __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax()) > > Yep, this is the case. Greg, you can add a reference to: > > a9febbb4bd13 > 27b3d80a7b6a > 8d987e5c7510 > > in my "[ ... ]" in the commit message to clear this up.
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