From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx3-rdu2.redhat.com ([66.187.233.73]:32946 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750910AbeBWJB1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Feb 2018 04:01:27 -0500 Message-ID: <1519376484.4161.13.camel@redhat.com> Subject: Re: Patch "net: add dst_cache support" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree From: Paolo Abeni To: Greg KH Cc: davem@davemloft.net, hannes@stressinduktion.org, manojboopathi@google.com, stable@vger.kernel.org, stable-commits@vger.kernel.org Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 10:01:24 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20180223085852.GA31038@kroah.com> References: <151932382622698@kroah.com> <1519375153.4161.10.camel@redhat.com> <20180223085852.GA31038@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 2018-02-23 at 09:58 +0100, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 09:39:13AM +0100, Paolo Abeni wrote: > > On Thu, 2018-02-22 at 19:23 +0100, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote: > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > > > net: add dst_cache support > > > > > > to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: > > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary > > > > > > The filename of the patch is: > > > net-add-dst_cache-support.patch > > > and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. > > > > > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > > > please let know about it. > > > > I see this patch is needed by "net: replace dst_cache ip6_tunnel > > implementation with the generic one", but I'm not 100% sure this is > > stable material ?!? the race addressed by the later patch is very hard > > to reproduce - I never saw that in real life scenario. > > Manoj seems to have hit this in real devices, and asked for it to be > backported as it fixes a problem. Ok, I'm fine with that than! Also I'm somewhat "happy" that race I saw on the paper is a real thing and not a lack-of-coffee issue ; Thanks for tacking care of this, Paolo