Re: Please backport 25432eba9cd8f2ef (4.15, 4.16, 4.17) ("openvswitch: meter: Fix setting meter id for new entries")

On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 02:35:40PM -0700, Yifeng Sun wrote:

commit upstream 25432eba9cd8f2ef5afef55be811b010a004b5fa

This commit ("openvswitch: meter: Fix setting meter id for new entries") fixes an issue that makes OVS meter malfunction. This fix is already in upstream 4.18 and later.

It is a low risk fix, since it only passes the missed value of meter_id to new meter entries.

4.15, 4.16, and 4.17 are all long end-of-life kernels, so I don't know what we can do here with this commit.

Do you need it in 4.14? 4.9? 4.4?

Always look at the kernel.org releases page to see the currently-alive kernel versions.

thanks,

greg k-h