Re: Patch "mptcp: strict local address ID selection" has been added to the 5.17-stable tree

[Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 2022-05-23 at 17:33 +0200, Matthieu Baerts wrote:
> Hi Mat, Paolo,
> 
> (- stable list and netdev maintainers, + mptcp list)
> 
> On 23/05/2022 05:06, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > 
> >     mptcp: strict local address ID selection
> > 
> > to the 5.17-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:
> >      mptcp-strict-local-address-id-selection.patch
> > and it can be found in the queue-5.17 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.
> 
> 
> Do we want the patch below to be backported to stable?
> 
> It think it is slightly changing the behaviour and we might not want it
> there, no?

I don't have hard-preferences, but I *think* we are better-off with
this patch and the csum-one in without any additional effort, than to
craft csum specifically for stable (and delay it). 

Cheers,

Paolo