From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Mahesh Bandewar <mahesh@bandewar.net>
Cc: Jay Vosburgh <j.vosburgh@gmail.com>,
Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>,
Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@gmail.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, Michal Soltys <soltys@ziu.info>,
Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH next] bonding: pass link-local packets to bonding master also.
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 16:33:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180716163353.2fe5659c@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180716011246.225647-1-mahesh@bandewar.net>
On Sun, 15 Jul 2018 18:12:46 -0700
Mahesh Bandewar <mahesh@bandewar.net> wrote:
> From: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
>
> Commit b89f04c61efe ("bonding: deliver link-local packets with
> skb->dev set to link that packets arrived on") changed the behavior
> of how link-local-multicast packets are processed. The change in
> the behavior broke some legacy use cases where these packets are
> expected to arrive on bonding master device also.
>
> This patch passes the packet to the stack with the link it arrived
> on as well as passes to the bonding-master device to preserve the
> legacy use case.
>
> Reported-by: Michal Soltys <soltys@ziu.info>
> Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Thanks for fixing this.
Why not add a Fixes: tag instead of just talking about the commit?
That helps the stable maintainers know which versions of the kernel
need the patch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-17 0:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-16 1:12 [PATCH next] bonding: pass link-local packets to bonding master also Mahesh Bandewar
2018-07-16 21:24 ` Jay Vosburgh
2018-07-16 23:53 ` Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार)
2018-07-17 9:32 ` Michal Soltys
2018-07-17 22:17 ` Michal Soltys
2018-07-16 23:33 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2018-07-16 23:57 ` Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार)
2018-07-17 0:43 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-07-17 9:55 ` Michal Soltys
2018-11-30 21:32 ` [next] " Vincent Bernat
2018-12-09 8:30 ` Vincent Bernat
2018-12-19 22:57 ` Michal Soltys
2018-12-20 5:55 ` Vincent Bernat
2018-12-23 13:06 ` Michal Soltys
2018-12-23 13:16 ` Vincent Bernat
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