On Fri, 2018-02-23 at 09:58 +0100, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 09:39:13AM +0100, Paolo Abeni wrote: > > On Thu, 2018-02-22 at 19:23 +0100, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > > > net: add dst_cache support > > > > > > to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: > > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary > > > > > > The filename of the patch is: > > > net-add-dst_cache-support.patch > > > and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. > > > > > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > > > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. > > > > I see this patch is needed by "net: replace dst_cache ip6_tunnel > > implementation with the generic one", but I'm not 100% sure this is > > stable material ?!? the race addressed by the later patch is very hard > > to reproduce - I never saw that in real life scenario. > > Manoj seems to have hit this in real devices, and asked for it to be > backported as it fixes a problem. Ok, I'm fine with that than! Also I'm somewhat "happy" that race I saw on the paper is a real thing and not a lack-of-coffee issue ; Thanks for tacking care of this, Paolo