From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, hannes@stressinduktion.org,
manojboopathi@google.com, stable@vger.kernel.org,
stable-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch "net: add dst_cache support" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 09:58:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180223085852.GA31038@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1519375153.4161.10.camel@redhat.com>
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 <stable@vger.kernel.org> 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.
> Anyway, if this is going to land on stable, I suggest to add also:
>
> commit 9b246841f4041f85265dec5f769c017fc36a0d33
> Author: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
> Date: Mon Mar 21 18:37:22 2016 -0400
>
> Make DST_CACHE a silent config option
Ah, nice, will go queue that one up too, thanks.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-23 8:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-22 18:23 Patch "net: add dst_cache support" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree gregkh
2018-02-23 8:39 ` Paolo Abeni
2018-02-23 8:58 ` Greg KH [this message]
2018-02-23 9:01 ` Paolo Abeni
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