Re: Patch "net: refactor bind_bucket fastreuse into helper" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

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On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 09:28:48PM +0200, Matthieu Baerts wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On 17/08/2020 11:59, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > 
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > 
> >      net: refactor bind_bucket fastreuse into helper
> > 
> > to the 4.14-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-refactor-bind_bucket-fastreuse-into-helper.patch
> > and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
> > 
> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
> 
> (...)
> 
> > Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tim.froidcoeur@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
> > 
> > queue-4.14/net-refactor-bind_bucket-fastreuse-into-helper.patch
> 
> Thank you for backporting this patch!
> 
> It seems the backport of the companion patch -- d76f3351cea2 ("net:
> initialize fastreuse on inet_inherit_port") -- was lost somewhere for 4.14
> version. It was backported in all other newer stable versions: 5.8, 5.7,
> 5.4, 4.19 but not in 4.14.
> The patch backported here is a preparation for the real fix which is the
> missing patch.
> 
> I guess the intention is to backport d76f3351cea2 to v4.14 as well. If not,
> this refactoring is maybe not needed :)

Ugh, that was my fault, thanks for catching this.  I've now queued this
up to 4.14.y.

greg k-h



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