Re: [RFC] Backport request: 7791f535 (#919 fix) to release/2.6 ??? DCO peer-table desync

Gert Doering <[email protected]> Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:59:59 +0200

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Hi,

On Thu, Jun 25, 2026 at 10:47:56PM +0200, Thomas Nyberg via Openvpn-devel wrote:
> Yeah sorry I'm not sure how I messed this up. I was bouncing around many
> different versions of both the kernel module and the userspace program load
> testing it in different ways to force the different bugs and I guess I just
> somehow screwed this up? I'm not sure how Claude missed it, but I'm in the
> driver's seat here so I should have found that myself. Can't blame robots
> for everything.

Re-reading your mail I think I can see what happened - Claude looking at
the debian sources, which indeed are "2.6.14 + security patches" and
not 2.6.20 - and then forgetting to look at the upstream git repo, or
so...

> In any case, thanks so much for the clarification! I will adapt the debian
> bug report I created to instead cherry-pick the commits from the 2.6.20
> branch instead of concocting commits of my own monstrosity like I did.

I think this commit and the one before it (876a8cf5fd, "dco: port
core/context infrastructure needed ...") do qualify as bugfix, so should
be backportable according to debian rules...

> Sorry for the noise! Thanks for the info this is the best possible outcome
> since you fixed my problem before I even asked for it!

Always at your service ;-)

(admittedly it took us waaay to long to fix this in 2.6 - the 2.7.0
release got in the way, and then everybody was exhausted...)

gert
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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             [email protected]

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