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Thu, 5 Jun 2025 10:45:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2025 16:45:39 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Jakub Kicinski Cc: Ilya Maximets , Sasha Levin , patches@lists.linux.dev, stable@vger.kernel.org, Eelco Chaudron , Simon Horman , aconole@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, dev@openvswitch.org Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.15 044/118] openvswitch: Stricter validation for the userspace action Message-ID: <2025060520-slacking-swimmer-1b31@gregkh> References: <20250604005049.4147522-1-sashal@kernel.org> <20250604005049.4147522-44-sashal@kernel.org> <38ef1815-5bc1-4391-b487-05a18e84c94e@ovn.org> <2025060449-arena-exceeding-a090@gregkh> <7bc258ad-3f65-4d6e-a9f5-840a6c174d90@ovn.org> <2025060440-gristle-viewable-ef6a@gregkh> <20250605072334.256dc524@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20250605072334.256dc524@kernel.org> On Thu, Jun 05, 2025 at 07:23:34AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jun 2025 10:28:09 +0200 Greg KH wrote: > > Nothing that ends up on Linus's tree should not be allowed also to be in > > a stable kernel release as there is no difference in the "rule" that "we > > will not break userspace". > > > > So this isn't an issue here, if you need/want to make parsing more > > strict, due to bugs or whatever, then great, let's make it more strict > > as long as it doesn't break anyone's current system. It doesn't matter > > if this is in Linus's release or in a stable release, same rule holds > > for both. > > For sure, tho, I think the question is inverted here. We seem to be > discussing arguments why something should not be backported, rather > than arguments why something should be backported. You seem to be > saying that the barrier of entry to stable is lower than what we'd > normally send to Linus for an -rc, which perhaps makes sense in other > parts of the kernel, but in networking that doesn't compute. > > We go by simple logic of deciding if something is a fix. > This is not a fix. Neither is this: > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250604005049.4147522-54-sashal@kernel.org/ Ok, then that's a valid reason to drop it, that is not what I was thinking was happening here at all, sorry. greg k-h