Re: [PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 009/126] sit: fix sit0 percpu double allocations

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On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 05:14:06PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2015 12:43:10 -0800
> 
> > 2) I have no idea why this patch is even backported to 3.16,
> >  since it is fixing a problem added in 3.18 :
> 
> Because someone on the path to some of the -stable trees aren't even
> checking the Fixes: tag in the patches they are backporting.
> 
> And that's really bad...

As I already said before, this patch has been included in 3.16 because
the SHA1 in the "Fixes:" *is* in 3.16 (as it is in other even older
stable trees such as 3.12 and 3.14).

Cheers,
--
Luís
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