On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 08:24:52PM +0300, Ido Schimmel wrote:
> commit 25cc72a33835ed8a6f53180a822cadab855852ac upstream.
>
> Jiri Slaby noticed that the backport of upstream commit 25cc72a33835
> ("mlxsw: spectrum: Forbid linking to devices that have uppers") to
> kernel 4.9.y introduced the same check twice in the same function
> instead of in two different places.
>
> Fix this by relocating one of the checks to its intended place, thus
> preventing unsupported configurations as described in the original
> commit.
>
> Fixes: 73ee5a73e75f ("mlxsw: spectrum: Forbid linking to devices that have uppers")
> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> Greg, I read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt, so I hope the patch
> is fine. Please let me know if v2 is required. Thanks
This commit is already in 4.9.51, why do you need/want it applied again?
confused,
greg k-h
