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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, jslaby@suse.cz, davem@davemloft.net,
	jiri@mellanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.9] mlxsw: spectrum: Forbid linking of VLAN devices to devices that have uppers
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 19:52:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180705175221.GA29378@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180705172452.1454-1-idosch@mellanox.com>

On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 08:24:52PM +0300, Ido Schimmel wrote:
> commit 25cc72a33835ed8a6f53180a822cadab855852ac upstream.
> 
> Jiri Slaby noticed that the backport of upstream commit 25cc72a33835
> ("mlxsw: spectrum: Forbid linking to devices that have uppers") to
> kernel 4.9.y introduced the same check twice in the same function
> instead of in two different places.
> 
> Fix this by relocating one of the checks to its intended place, thus
> preventing unsupported configurations as described in the original
> commit.
> 
> Fixes: 73ee5a73e75f ("mlxsw: spectrum: Forbid linking to devices that have uppers")
> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
> Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
> ---
> Greg, I read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt, so I hope the patch
> is fine. Please let me know if v2 is required. Thanks

This commit is already in 4.9.51, why do you need/want it applied again?

confused,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-05 17:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-05 17:24 [PATCH 4.9] mlxsw: spectrum: Forbid linking of VLAN devices to devices that have uppers Ido Schimmel
2018-07-05 17:52 ` Greg KH [this message]
2018-07-05 18:23   ` Ido Schimmel
2018-07-05 18:29     ` Greg KH
2018-07-05 18:43       ` Ido Schimmel

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