On Sun, Aug 05, 2018 at 03:19:33PM +0000, Dan Rue wrote: > On Sun, Aug 05, 2018 at 03:49:52PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 05, 2018 at 05:24:21PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote: > > > On 4 August 2018 at 14:29, Greg Kroah-Hartman > > > <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.146 release. > > > > There are 124 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response > > > > to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please > > > > let me know. > > > > > > > > Responses should be made by Mon Aug 6 08:26:39 UTC 2018. > > > > Anything received after that time might be too late. > > > > > > > > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: > > > > https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.4.146-rc1.gz > > > > or in the git tree and branch at: > > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.4.y > > > > and the diffstat can be found below. > > > > > > > > thanks, > > > > > > > > greg k-h > > > > > > Results from Linaro’s test farm. > > > No regressions on arm64, arm and x86_64. > > > > Really? How did you all miss the netfilter bug that was introduced by > > this series? > > > > Anyway, thanks for testing, but I'm worried... > > I took a look through our test suites to see where we may have coverage for > this. There is a netns series of tests in LTP [1], but we've had trouble > getting them running successfully in the past and so they are being skipped. I > don't know if it would have caught this particular issue, but I'll find out, > and also see if we can get them working and running again. > > We also run the net/ tests in kselftest, but there aren't that many, and of > course running kselftest the way we do is not a well supported usecase (running > all of 4.17 kselftest against 4.4 kernels, skipping tests that are broken). > > So I would ask, how would net/ expect such things to be tested, and what can we > do to help? I don't know. Somehow this was caught when running Android's userspace, which seems to be a great stress test for networking. What about running the Android networking tests on kernels? Those don't need to be run on an android system to work properly last I checked. thanks, greg k-h
