From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ip_tunnel: disable preemption when updating per-cpu tstats
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 13:17:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151118211747.GA19466@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHmME9qV_sv9wza3W69kOBbBSZBZ4=aYiU2W8t6wURpfPNkz_A@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 09:22:19PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> The below patch has made it into Linus' tree, but should be backported
> quite far. From testing, I know this applies to 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3. I
> haven't looked further back, but I imagine it's relevant there too.
>
> Upstream commit:
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b4fe85f9c9146f60457e9512fb6055e69e6a7a65
>
> =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~
> >From b4fe85f9c9146f60457e9512fb6055e69e6a7a65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 17:35:58 +0100
> Subject: ip_tunnel: disable preemption when updating per-cpu tstats
For networking patches, please email the netdev mailing list and ask for
a patch to be applied to the stable tree, the maintainer there will
handle it for you, he doesn't want people to send patches directly to
stable@ like this so that he can properly test them.
thanks,
greg k-h
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2015-11-18 20:22 [PATCH] ip_tunnel: disable preemption when updating per-cpu tstats Jason A. Donenfeld
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