From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:47532 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750879AbeBWI6v (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Feb 2018 03:58:51 -0500 Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 09:58:52 +0100 From: Greg KH To: Paolo Abeni 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 Message-ID: <20180223085852.GA31038@kroah.com> References: <151932382622698@kroah.com> <1519375153.4161.10.camel@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1519375153.4161.10.camel@redhat.com> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. > Anyway, if this is going to land on stable, I suggest to add also: > > commit 9b246841f4041f85265dec5f769c017fc36a0d33 > Author: Dave Jones > 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