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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Maciej Żenczykowski" <zenczykowski@gmail.com>
Cc: Benedict Wong <benedictwong@google.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@google.com>,
	Linux NetDev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Nathan Harold <nharold@google.com>,
	Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>,
	Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>,
	Eyal Birger <eyal.birger@gmail.com>,
	tobias@strongswan.org
Subject: Re: [xfrm, backport request] Request backport of e2612cd496e7 - set-mark backwards compatibility
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2019 17:29:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190206162938.GB22989@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANP3RGcdptMfnJXQNjNdiD4kuoZxj4vETro_aWRQqzsxY=yAfQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 02:54:29PM -0800, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:
> > I propose backporting commit e2612cd496e7 ("xfrm: Make set-mark default
> > behavior backward compatible") to 4.19 and 4.20 kernels to fix a backwards
> > compatibility bug introduced in 9b42c1f179a6 (“xfrm: Extend the
> > output_mark to support input direction and masking”).
> >
> > The fix is small, relatively simple, and has unit tests. :)
> >
> > Without this change, systems using mark-based routing on 4.19 or 4.20
> > kernels will by fail to route IPsec tunnel mode packets correctly in the
> > default case. This specifically affects Android devices.
> 
> Looks like it already includes a 'fixes: sha1' tag.
> I'm not sure what causes these patches to get picked up for stable...
> I'm guessing it's some sort of Greg-fu-style-magic...?

<formletter>

This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree.  Please read:
    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
for how to do this properly.

</formletter>

Hint, putting a fixes tag there does NOT trigger my scripts...

      reply	other threads:[~2019-02-06 16:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-05 21:59 [xfrm, backport request] Request backport of e2612cd496e7 - set-mark backwards compatibility Benedict Wong
2019-02-05 22:54 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2019-02-06 16:29   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]

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