On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 09:28:15AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> please consider applying the following two patches to v4.4.y, v4.9.y, and v4.14.y
>
> 80055dab5de0 ("netfilter: x_tables: make xt_replace_table wait until old rules are not used anymore")
> 175e476b8cdf ("netfilter: x_tables: Use correct memory barriers.")
The second patch here says that it's only needed to go back until:
Fixes: 7f5c6d4f665b ("netfilter: get rid of atomic ops in fast path")
Which is only backported to 4.19. So why do older kernels need that, is
the fixes tag wrong?
thanks,
greg k-h
