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Bug 69927

Summary: Network DoS fix from -ac Kernel tree
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: tklauser
Component: [OLD] Core systemAssignee: Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers <kernel>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments: Patch to apply against 2.6.9

Description tklauser 2004-11-03 03:16:48 UTC
In Alan Cox' Kernel patchset -ac2 [1], there is fix for a network DoS bug. I extracted it from Alan's patchset and hope it will be applied to gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.9

[1] ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/linux-2.6/2.6.9/patch-2.6.9-ac2.bz2
Comment 1 tklauser 2004-11-03 03:17:19 UTC
Created attachment 43209 [details, diff]
Patch to apply against 2.6.9
Comment 2 tklauser 2004-11-03 03:23:56 UTC
Watching the -ac patchset in the future would also be a good idea, since it contains "...clearly correct fixes to real problems in 2.6.9 that ought to go into a production 2.6.9 series kernel..." [1] That might be good for gentoo-dev-sources, since it's the official Gentoo distribution Kernel on x86 and amd64 (according to [2]).

[1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109836201404180&w=2
[2] http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/gentoo-dev-sources/
Comment 3 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-11-03 03:40:47 UTC
It's already included in gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.9-r2 but I forgot to mention it in the changelog, sorry. I'm keeping my eye on Alan's patchset, but I wish he would split the patches out so that I don't have to trust that other people have done it correctly...
And you read my page wrong - gentoo-dev-sources is the supported _2.6_ kernel, but for x86 at least, 2.4 is still the default.
Comment 4 tklauser 2004-11-03 04:08:55 UTC
> but I wish he would split the patches out so that I don't have to trust
> that other people have done it correctly...

Try to convince Alan to use BK then ;)

> And you read my page wrong - gentoo-dev-sources is the supported _2.6_ kernel,
> but for x86 at least, 2.4 is still the default.

No I read it right, but I didn't express myself right. ;)