From: Brett Sheffield <brett@librecast.net>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, regressions@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: 6.12.y longterm regression - IPv6 UDP packet fragmentation
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2025 11:37:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aFfO8a7vS1jeBonh@karahi.gladserv.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2025062212-erasable-riches-d3eb@gregkh>
On 2025-06-22 11:10, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2025 at 02:25:02PM -0400, Willem de Bruijn wrote:
> > FWIW, I did not originally intend for these changes to make it to stable.
> >
> > The simplest short term solution is to revert this patch out of the
> > stable trees. But long term that may give more conflicts as later
> > patches need to be backported? Not sure what is wiser in such cases.
>
> For now, I've applied the above 2 to the 6.12.y tree. They do not apply
> any older. If I should drop the change from the older stable trees,
> please let me know.
Thanks Greg.
For the older stable trees I agree with Willem that reverting the patch is the
simplest fix.
As it stands UDP is broken in the older stable trees, so if this can make it
into the next stable release that would be a good thing.
Cheers,
Brett
--
Brett Sheffield (he/him)
Librecast - Decentralising the Internet with Multicast
https://librecast.net/
https://blog.brettsheffield.com/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-06-22 9:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-06-11 11:04 6.12.y longterm regression - IPv6 UDP packet fragmentation Brett Sheffield
2025-06-17 13:47 ` Greg KH
2025-06-17 17:29 ` Brett Sheffield
2025-06-17 18:25 ` Willem de Bruijn
2025-06-22 9:10 ` Greg KH
2025-06-22 9:37 ` Brett Sheffield [this message]
2025-07-02 9:59 ` Greg KH
2025-07-02 11:37 ` [PATCH 6.6.y] Revert "ipv6: save dontfrag in cork" Brett A C Sheffield
2025-07-03 18:34 ` Sasha Levin
2025-07-02 11:38 ` [PATCH 5.15.y] " Brett A C Sheffield
2025-07-03 18:34 ` Sasha Levin
2025-07-02 11:41 ` [PATCH 5.10.y] " Brett A C Sheffield
2025-07-03 18:34 ` Sasha Levin
2025-07-02 11:41 ` [PATCH 6.1.y] " Brett A C Sheffield
2025-07-03 18:35 ` Sasha Levin
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