Re: Patch "net/sched: act_api: move TCA_EXT_WARN_MSG to the correct hierarchy" has been added to the 6.1-stable tree

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 09:23:01AM -0300, Pedro Tammela wrote:
> On 19/06/2023 03:52, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> > 
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > 
> >      net/sched: act_api: move TCA_EXT_WARN_MSG to the correct hierarchy
> > 
> > to the 6.1-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:
> >       net-sched-act_api-move-tca_ext_warn_msg-to-the-correct-hierarchy.patch
> > and it can be found in the queue-6.1 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.
> > 
> > 
> >  From 923b2e30dc9cd05931da0f64e2e23d040865c035 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Pedro Tammela <pctammela@mojatatu.com>
> > Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2023 14:56:01 -0300
> > Subject: net/sched: act_api: move TCA_EXT_WARN_MSG to the correct hierarchy
> > 
> > From: Pedro Tammela <pctammela@mojatatu.com>
> > 
> > commit 923b2e30dc9cd05931da0f64e2e23d040865c035 upstream.
> > 
> > TCA_EXT_WARN_MSG is currently sitting outside of the expected hierarchy
> > for the tc actions code. It should sit within TCA_ACT_TAB.
> > 
> > Fixes: 0349b8779cc9 ("sched: add new attr TCA_EXT_WARN_MSG to report tc extact message")
> > Reviewed-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Pedro Tammela <pctammela@mojatatu.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com>
> > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > ---
> >   net/sched/act_api.c |    4 ++--
> >   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > --- a/net/sched/act_api.c
> > +++ b/net/sched/act_api.c
> > @@ -1603,12 +1603,12 @@ static int tca_get_fill(struct sk_buff *
> >   	if (tcf_action_dump(skb, actions, bind, ref, false) < 0)
> >   		goto out_nlmsg_trim;
> > -	nla_nest_end(skb, nest);
> > -
> >   	if (extack && extack->_msg &&
> >   	    nla_put_string(skb, TCA_EXT_WARN_MSG, extack->_msg))
> >   		goto out_nlmsg_trim;
> > +	nla_nest_end(skb, nest);
> > +
> >   	nlh->nlmsg_len = skb_tail_pointer(skb) - b;
> >   	return skb->len;
> > 
> 
> Hi!
> This commit is bogus. The correct one to pull is:
> 2f59823fe696 ("net/sched: act_api: add specific EXT_WARN_MSG for tc action")
> If it's already in the queue then just removing this one is enough.

It is in the queue, AND I grabbed the revert of this original one, to
preserve the history properly and ensure we don't try to apply it again.

thanks,

greg k-h