Re: Patch "tcp: reorganize tcp_in_ack_event() and tcp_count_delivered()" has been added to the 6.6-stable tree

["Ilpo Järvinen" <ij@kernel.org>]

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+ Chia-Yu


On Thu, 12 Jun 2025, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 01:40:57AM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > > 
> > >     tcp: reorganize tcp_in_ack_event() and tcp_count_delivered()
> > > 
> > > to the 6.6-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:
> > >      tcp-reorganize-tcp_in_ack_event-and-tcp_count_delive.patch
> > > and it can be found in the queue-6.6 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.
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > May I ask why this patch was backported to stable versions  ?

As you see Eric, you got no answer to a very direct question.

I've long since stopped caring unless a change really looks dangerous 
(this one didn't) what they take into stable, especially since they tend
to ignore on-what-grounds questions.

> > This is causing a packetdrill test to fail.
> 
> Is this an issue upstream as well? Should we just drop it from stable?

It's long since I've done anything with packetdrill so it will take some 
time for me to test. Maybe Chia-Yu can check this faster (but I assume 
it's also problem in mainline as this is reported by Eric).

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