Re: [PATCH 6.6 000/587] 6.6.103-rc1 review

[Brett A C Sheffield]

On 2025-08-26 12:42, Brett A C Sheffield wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On 2025-08-26 13:02, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.6.103 release.
> > There are 587 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 Thu, 28 Aug 2025 11:08:24 +0000.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> 
> Quick query - should we be backporting a known regression, even if it is in
> mainline presently, or do we wait until the fix is applied to mainline and
> *then* backport both patches?
> 
> 9e30ecf23b1b ("net: ipv4: fix incorrect MTU in broadcast routes")
> 
> introduces a regression which breaks IPv4 broadcast, which stops WOL working
> (breaking my CI system), among other things:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/regressions/20250822165231.4353-4-bacs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> This regression has *already* been backported to:
> 
> - 6.16.3
> - 6.12.43
> 
> so I guess we wait for a fix for these.
> 
> However, it is not yet present in the other stable kernels.  The new stable
> release candidates today would spread the breakage to:
> 
> - 6.6.y
> - 6.1.y
> - 5.15.y
> - 5.10.y

oops - and 5.4.y

My goodness there are a lot of stable trees to keep track of!


Brett
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