Re: [PATCH 4.4 00/25] 4.4.52-stable review

[David Miller]

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 15:43:37 +0100

> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 01:55:31PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> On Fri, 2017-02-24 at 09:25 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.52 release.
>> > There are 25 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
>> > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
>> > let me know.
>> [...]
>> 
>> 4.4 is still missing ccf7abb93af0 "tcp: avoid infinite loop in
>> tcp_splice_read()" although you've applied it to 4.9 (in 4.9.11).  I've
>> reproduced the bug and fix on 3.2, so I'm confident it's also needed
>> for 4.4.
> 
> Odd, David didn't include that in his patch mbox he sent to me for
> 4.4-stable.
> 
> David, any objection to me taking the patch for 4.4?

No objections.