Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751232Ab3IJSxn (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Sep 2013 14:53:43 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:55477 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750870Ab3IJSxl (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Sep 2013 14:53:41 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 14:53:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20130910.145334.1669114772684195996.davem@davemloft.net> To: ben@decadent.org.uk Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, joseph.salisbury@canonical.com, steffen.klassert@secunet.com, edumazet@google.com Subject: Re: [PATCH][v3.2.y] inetpeer: Invalidate the inetpeer tree along with the routing cache From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1377986658.21578.5.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> References: <5213A8BB.5070309@canonical.com> <1377986658.21578.5.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.5 on Emacs 24.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.1 (shards.monkeyblade.net [0.0.0.0]); Tue, 10 Sep 2013 11:53:36 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1589 Lines: 40 From: Ben Hutchings Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 23:04:18 +0100 > On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 13:34 -0400, Joseph Salisbury wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Please consider including mainline commit 5faa5df in the next v3.2.y >> release. It was included in the mainline tree as of v3.3-rc7. It has >> been tested and confirmed to resolve >> http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1205741 . >> >> >> commit 5faa5df1fa2024bd750089ff21dcc4191798263d >> Author: Steffen Klassert >> Date: Tue Mar 6 21:20:26 2012 +0000 >> >> inetpeer: Invalidate the inetpeer tree along with the routing cache >> >> >> Also note that commit 5faa5df introduced a race condition that is fixed >> by mainline commit 55432d2, so that commit would also be required: >> >> commit 55432d2b543a4b6dfae54f5c432a566877a85d90 >> Author: Eric Dumazet >> Date: Tue Jun 5 03:00:18 2012 +0000 >> >> inetpeer: fix a race in inetpeer_gc_worker() > > David, could you ack/nak these for 3.2 (maybe 3.0 as well?). I'm queueing these two patches up for 3.2 only, the inetpeer/metrics-cache situation in 3.0 has so many deeper problems than can be reasonably dealt with using backports. Just look at the layout differences of struct inetpeer between 3.0 and 3.2, and the reasons for that, for the tip of the iceberg. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/