Re: A question about commit 6c16fa backported in 3.18.93

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Hello Greg,

I have already submitted a patch to linux-stable here
(https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg213160.html), would like to
see it on 3.18.94 queue.

Thanks,

Wang

2018-02-02 17:37 GMT+08:00 Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 10:58:02AM +0800, Wang Han wrote:
>> Hello, I am not familiar with Linux mailing, sorry for this.
>>
>> I am writing this mail because I am not sure about commit
>> 6c16fa957e84c8b640dadc4e0264ff0d2dae7aa3 added in 3.18.93.
>>
>> That backport made the arp.h changes in struct __ipv4_neigh_lookup(),
>> but compared with upstream commit, I think that 3 lines should be
>> added in __ipv4_neigh_lookup_noref(), as I go through the context.
>> Also the latter would be called unconditionally if former is called so
>> it would cover more cases.
>>
>> Could you please check this and let me know? Though it would 90% be my derp.
>
> You might be right, I did the backport of this by hand, and odds are I
> got it wrong.  Thanks for checking this and finding the issue.
>
> Could you send me a patch to fix this up so I can apply it to the next
> 3.18.y release and give you the proper credit for it?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h



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