Subject: Re: [GIT PULL nf] IPVS Fixes for v3.19

From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 12:47:17 +0100

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:22:17AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> Hi Pablo,
> 
> please consider this fix for v3.19.
> 
> It resolves a crash in xfrm reported by Florian Wiessner.
> 
> I believe this problem manifests since 0a5ebb8000c5 ("ipv4: Pass explicit
> daddr arg to ip_send_reply().") which was included in v2.6.39.
> 
> Julian reports that the patch has been tested on net tree (Dec 7), 3.14.25,
> 3.12.33, 3.10.61. 3.4.104 needs a modified fix that resolves rejects. It
> applies with little fuzz on 3.2.64. Please let us know if we should post
> separate 3.2 and 3.4 patches.

Regarding -stable. This seems to apply cleanly to:

3.10.x
3.12.x
3.14.x
3.18.x

Not compiled tested yet, just clean application.

Lower versions need some backporting, I leave this to you to evaluate
if it is worth the effort.

Thanks!