Re: Missed mainstream fix in 3.10

[Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 06:30:46PM +0300, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
> ?? ????, 09/06/2015 ?? 17:23 +0200, Willy Tarreau ??????????:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 06:15:28PM +0300, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > it looks like the bellow commit is missed in stable 3.10 kernel.
> > > In 2.6.32 without this commit we observed a bridge dropping big
> > > packets. The fix is in mainstream kernel now.
> > > Please, look if it's need in stable 3.10 kernel.
> > > 
> > > commit aff09ce303f83bd370772349238482ae422a2341
> > > Author: Vasily Averin <vvs@parallels.com>
> > > Date:   Mon May 5 00:17:48 2014 +0400
> > > 
> > >     bridge: superfluous skb->nfct check in br_nf_dev_queue_xmit
> > > 
> > (...)
> > 
> > But this patch is not in 2.6.32 either. Does this mean you applied it to
> > your own tree, in which case it should have been backported to all kernels
> > from 2.6.32 to 3.14 as well (since it was merged in 3.15) ? That's a bit
> > confusing.
> 
> It was applied to our local 2.6.32 kernel tree and was commited to upstream.
> We didn't trace if it was commited to stable trees.
> 
> Now I'm porting some local patches from 2.6.32 to 3.10 and found that this
> patch isn't in stable 3.10. So I'm reporting to stable tree guys.

OK. So then it should cover all stable trees, not just 3.10.

Since Davem handles the stable backports of the networking stuff, please
remind him to add this one to his queue.

Thanks,
Willy