From: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
To: Nikolay Borisov <n.borisov.lkml@gmail.com>,
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
pabeni@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Inclusion of fc791b6335152c5278dc4a4991bcb2d329f806f9 ("IB/ipoib: move back IB LL address into the hard header")
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 15:05:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1485547523.2432.30.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0f55837c-9678-8ff0-1cec-2a8b8b26f83f@gmail.com>
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On Wed, 2017-01-25 at 17:07 +0200, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
> [CC RELEVANT DEVELOPERS/MAINTAINERS]
>
> On 25.01.2017 17:05, Greg KH wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 04:51:45PM +0200, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I'd like to ask the patch in the subject to be merged into
> > > current
> > > stable trees starting from 4.4. The fixes tag of the patch cites
> > > a
> > > commit which was introduced into 4.5, however the problem exists
> > > even on
> > > 4.4 kernel. For more information you can check:
> > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111921
> >
> > Any reason you didn't cc: the developers of that patch and the
> > maintainers of the subsystem so that they can answer this question?
>
> Mainly because I didn't know I had to, hopefully it's better now :)
The patch should be safe to apply to earlier kernels if they also show
the problem. However, I know that context diffs will cause the patch
from applying long before you reach the patch that introduced this
issue:
936d7de3d736 IPoIB: Stop lying about hard_header_len and use skb->cb to
stash LL addresses
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-27 20:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-25 14:51 Inclusion of fc791b6335152c5278dc4a4991bcb2d329f806f9 ("IB/ipoib: move back IB LL address into the hard header") Nikolay Borisov
2017-01-25 15:05 ` Greg KH
2017-01-25 15:07 ` Nikolay Borisov
2017-01-27 20:05 ` Doug Ledford [this message]
2017-01-27 22:30 ` Vasiliy Tolstov
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