Re: Patch "net: add dst_cache support" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 2018-02-22 at 19:23 +0100, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> 
>     net: add dst_cache support
> 
> to the 4.4-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:
>      net-add-dst_cache-support.patch
> and it can be found in the queue-4.4 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.

I see this patch is needed by "net: replace dst_cache ip6_tunnel
implementation with the generic one", but I'm not 100% sure this is
stable material ?!? the race addressed by the later patch is very hard
to reproduce - I never saw that in real life scenario.

Anyway, if this is going to land on stable, I suggest to add also:

commit 9b246841f4041f85265dec5f769c017fc36a0d33
Author: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Date:   Mon Mar 21 18:37:22 2016 -0400

    Make DST_CACHE a silent config option

Thanks,

Paolo