From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, hannes@stressinduktion.org,
manojboopathi@google.com, stable@vger.kernel.org,
stable-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch "net: add dst_cache support" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 10:01:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1519376484.4161.13.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180223085852.GA31038@kroah.com>
On Fri, 2018-02-23 at 09:58 +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 09:39:13AM +0100, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Manoj seems to have hit this in real devices, and asked for it to be
> backported as it fixes a problem.
Ok, I'm fine with that than! Also I'm somewhat "happy" that race I saw
on the paper is a real thing and not a lack-of-coffee issue ;
Thanks for tacking care of this,
Paolo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-23 9:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-22 18:23 Patch "net: add dst_cache support" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree gregkh
2018-02-23 8:39 ` Paolo Abeni
2018-02-23 8:58 ` Greg KH
2018-02-23 9:01 ` Paolo Abeni [this message]
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