Re: ip_rcv_finish() NULL pointer and possibly related Oopses

[Michael Marineau]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-08-27 at 09:16 -0700, Michael Marineau wrote:
>
>>
>> Oh, interesting. Looks like that patch didn't get CC'd to stable
>> though, is there a reason for that or just oversight?
>
> We never CC stable for networking patches.
>
> David Miller prefers to take care of this himself.

Ah, right, sorry. forgot about that. :)

>
> ( this is in Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt )
>
> Q: How can I tell what patches are queued up for backporting to the
>    various stable releases?
>
> A: Normally Greg Kroah-Hartman collects stable commits himself, but
>    for networking, Dave collects up patches he deems critical for the
>    networking subsystem, and then hands them off to Greg.
>
>    There is a patchworks queue that you can see here:
>         http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/bundle/davem/stable/?state=*
>
>    It contains the patches which Dave has selected, but not yet handed
>    off to Greg.  If Greg already has the patch, then it will be here:
>         http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git
>
>    A quick way to find whether the patch is in this stable-queue is
>    to simply clone the repo, and then git grep the mainline commit ID, e.g.
>
>         stable-queue$ git grep -l 284041ef21fdf2e
>         releases/3.0.84/ipv6-fix-possible-crashes-in-ip6_cork_release.patch
>         releases/3.4.51/ipv6-fix-possible-crashes-in-ip6_cork_release.patch
>         releases/3.9.8/ipv6-fix-possible-crashes-in-ip6_cork_release.patch
>         stable/stable-queue$
>
>
>
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