Re: [PATCH 4.9] mlxsw: spectrum: Forbid linking of VLAN devices to devices that have uppers

[Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 07:52:21PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 08:24:52PM +0300, Ido Schimmel wrote:
> > commit 25cc72a33835ed8a6f53180a822cadab855852ac upstream.
> > 
> > Jiri Slaby noticed that the backport of upstream commit 25cc72a33835
> > ("mlxsw: spectrum: Forbid linking to devices that have uppers") to
> > kernel 4.9.y introduced the same check twice in the same function
> > instead of in two different places.
> > 
> > Fix this by relocating one of the checks to its intended place, thus
> > preventing unsupported configurations as described in the original
> > commit.
> > 
> > Fixes: 73ee5a73e75f ("mlxsw: spectrum: Forbid linking to devices that have uppers")
> > Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
> > Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
> > ---
> > Greg, I read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt, so I hope the patch
> > is fine. Please let me know if v2 is required. Thanks
> 
> This commit is already in 4.9.51, why do you need/want it applied again?

It wasn't clear to me if I need to specify "commit <sha1> upstream" also
for fixes of backports. You want me to post v2 without this line?

Thanks