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Date:   Sat, 4 Jun 2022 12:08:02 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Backporting "add second dif to raw, inet{6,}, udp,
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On Fri, Jun 03, 2022 at 10:08:22PM +0200, Petr Vorel wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> David (both), would it be possible to backport your commits from merge
> 9bcb5a572fd6 ("Merge branch 'net-l3mdev-Support-for-sockets-bound-to-enslaved-device'")
> from v4.14-rc1 to LTS 4.9?
> 
> These commits added second dif to raw, inet{6,}, udp, multicast sockets.
> The change is not a fix but a feature - significant change, therefore I
> understand if you're aginast backporting it.
> 
> My motivation is to get backported to LTS 4.9 these fixes from v5.17 (which
> has been backported to all newer stable/LTS trees):
> 2afc3b5a31f9 ("ping: fix the sk_bound_dev_if match in ping_lookup")
> 35a79e64de29 ("ping: fix the dif and sdif check in ping_lookup")
> cd33bdcbead8 ("ping: remove pr_err from ping_lookup")
> 
> which fix small issue with IPv6 in ICMP datagram socket ("ping" socket).
> 
> These 3 commits depend on 9bcb5a572fd6, particularly on:
> 3fa6f616a7a4d ("net: ipv4: add second dif to inet socket lookups")
> 4297a0ef08572 ("net: ipv6: add second dif to inet6 socket lookups")

Can't the fixes be backported without the larger api changes needed?

If not, how many commits are you trying to backport here?  And there's
no need for David to do this work if you need/want these fixes merged.

thanks,

greg k-h