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 -- Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx> GPG KeyID: B826A3330E572FDD Key fingerprint = AE6B 1BDA 122B 23B4 265B 1274 B826 A333 0E57 2FDD
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