From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:45395 "EHLO out5-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756913AbbKRVRu (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Nov 2015 16:17:50 -0500 Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.internal [10.202.2.42]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91261201AD for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 16:17:49 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 13:17:47 -0800 From: Greg KH To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ip_tunnel: disable preemption when updating per-cpu tstats Message-ID: <20151118211747.GA19466@kroah.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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" > 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