Re: [PATCH 5.4.y 8/8] act_mirred: use the backlog for nested calls to mirred ingress

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 10:56:18AM +0530, skulkarni@mvista.com wrote:
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> Hello Sasha/Greg,
> 
> For the "found follow-up fixes in mainline warning" for this patch:
> "Found fixes commits:
>  5e8670610b93 selftests: forwarding: tc_actions: Use ncat instead of nc"
> 
> While analysing the patches, I actually had noticed that the commit 5e867061 is a follow up i.e. "fixes" commit. But this commit  5e867061 is not part of the next stable kernel v5.10.y and as per my understanding, we are not allowed to backport a commit which is not in the next stable kernel version. Thus I haven't included that commit/patch here.
> 
> I am new to the process & learning the rules. Can you please let me know if any action is required from my side for this patchset here?

You need to submit all of the needed fixes for anything you have
backported as well.  As you are introducing a "problem", that would not
be good.

But, as you say, this is not in the 5.10.y tree yet, so please submit a
version for that as well, then there should not be any problem.

thanks,

greg k-h