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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: ssuryaextr@gmail.com, dsahern@kernel.org, kuba@kernel.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] vrf: Reset IPCB/IP6CB when processing outbound pkts in vrf" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2021 09:48:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Ya3OXTAESbCxOijc@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <658227e9-091b-cfd3-c71a-a16e5295134a@gmail.com>

On Sun, Dec 05, 2021 at 04:08:53PM -0700, David Ahern wrote:
> On 12/5/21 5:39 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> > so why isn't this needed in 4.4.y?
> 
> The patch fixes a corner case with MPLS + VRF. The VRF feature is not
> really usable before 4.9; I doubt VRF + MPLS with a last label pop is
> usable in 4.4.

Ok, thanks for the explaination.

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2021-12-06  8:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-04 10:28 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] vrf: Reset IPCB/IP6CB when processing outbound pkts in vrf" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree gregkh
2021-12-04 16:09 ` David Ahern
2021-12-05 12:39   ` Greg KH
2021-12-05 23:08     ` David Ahern
2021-12-06  8:48       ` Greg KH [this message]

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