On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 1:21 PM David Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2020 12:43:21 -0700 > > > If you're not willing to do the work to fix it, I will revert that > > commit. > > Please let me handle this situation instead of making threats, this > just got reported. > > Thank you. >
Also keep in mind the commit fixed a security issue, since we were sending on the wire garbage bytes from the kernel. We can not simply revert it and hope for the best. I find quite alarming vendors still use TCP MD5 "for security reasons", but none of them have contributed to it in linux kernel since 2018 (Time of the 'buggy patch')
