Re: Please apply commit 9990ddf47d41 ("net: tunnel: make skb_vlan_inet_prepare() return drop reasons") down to 6.1.y at least

[Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2026 at 07:29:16PM +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
>Hi Greg,
>
>I'm sorry having wasted your time, I relayed the testing result, let
>me loop in the user which tested the fix:
>
>On Tue, Feb 17, 2026 at 11:57:25AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2026 at 11:28:20AM +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
>> > Hi stable maintainers,
>> >
>> > 9990ddf47d41 ("net: tunnel: make skb_vlan_inet_prepare() return drop
>> > reasons") was alrady backported as well to 6.12.71 to address a
>> > regression when backporting 81c734dae203 ("ip6_tunnel: use
>> > skb_vlan_inet_prepare() in __ip6_tnl_rcv()") (this one was backported
>> > without the prequisite commit to 6.12.67, 6.6.122, 6.1.162, 5.15.199
>> > and 5.10.249).
>> >
>> > Can you pick please as well 9990ddf47d41 for the other stable series
>> > as needed? I can only give a confirmation that it works as exepcted
>> > for the 6.1.y series as per https://bugs.debian.org/1127823#36 .
>>
>> it does not apply to any of those older kernels, which is probably why
>> it didn't get added there.  I tried to do the backport myself, but the
>> changes to drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c doesn't make sense to me, so I
>> can't do it, sorry.
>>
>> Do you have a working backport anywhere?
>
>"Hostinger NOC" team, can you followup to the above? Can you provide a
>working backport down to the 6.1.y series to Greg?

I've queued up backports for 6.6 and 6.1. If you need anything older, please
send a backport :)

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Thanks,
Sasha