Re: [PATCH net-next 00/15] pull request for net-next: batman-adv 2026-07-28

[Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>]

On Tue, 4 Aug 2026 20:32:21 +0200 Paolo Abeni wrote:
> > Sorry, I am lost. There is stuff for which people have actual PoC code. Afaik, 
> > nothing for an RCE but enough to locally be a minor annoyance. The things 
> > which have no "Reported-by" are things which I have problems with on my 
> > installations.
> > 
> > And about the others: The "bla: avoid CRC corruption due to parallel claim 
> > add" + "prevent CRC corruptions after claim flush" were a problems I had (next 
> > to another which was not yet posted to netdev) but has a "Reported-by: 
> > Sashiko" because it was also reported by Sashiko when posting other bla 
> > patches and I think I've stolen the example from the commit message partially 
> > from the Sashiko report.  
> 
> I'm sorry this is getting more complicated than really intended. The
> rule of thumb is that real problems actually bothering users go into the
> 'net' tree, and other stuff goes into net-next without the fixes tag.

My rule of thumb is "there is no such thing as 'worth backporting but
not worth net'". People tend to send to -next fixes they didn't bother
testing.