On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 09:39:13AM +0100, Paolo Abeni wrote:
On Thu, 2018-02-22 at 19:23 +0100, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: add dst_cache supportto the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: net-add-dst_cache-support.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 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.
I see this patch is needed by "net: replace dst_cache ip6_tunnel implementation with the generic one", but I'm not 100% sure this is stable material ?!? the race addressed by the later patch is very hard to reproduce - I never saw that in real life scenario.
Manoj seems to have hit this in real devices, and asked for it to be backported as it fixes a problem.
Anyway, if this is going to land on stable, I suggest to add also:
commit 9b246841f4041f85265dec5f769c017fc36a0d33 Author: Dave Jones davej@codemonkey.org.uk Date: Mon Mar 21 18:37:22 2016 -0400
Make DST_CACHE a silent config option
Ah, nice, will go queue that one up too, thanks.
greg k-h