Re: [PATCH 4.4 00/21] 4.4.36-stable review

From: David Miller
Date: Wed Nov 30 2016 - 09:50:54 EST


From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 14:53:27 +0100

> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 02:46:19PM +0100, Andre Noll wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 30, 10:27, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote
>>
>> > Responses should be made by Fri Dec 2 09:26:46 UTC 2016.
>>
>> If you haven't done so already, could you please add c9b8af13
>> (flow_dissect: call init_default_flow_dissectors() earlier) for
>> 4.4.37?
>>
>> It fixes a regression introduced in 4.4.34 which makes systems
>> unbootable for us. We are currently running that patch on top of
>> 4.4.35 and I can confirm that it fixes the issue.
>
> I wait for networking stable patches to come from the networking
> maintainer, as he batches them up and runs them through testing before
> forwarding them on.
>
> That being said, this looks like an "easy" one to take, Davie, any
> objection to me queueing this up now?

I was waiting for it to hit Linus's tree which happened just a day or
two ago.

But feel free to take it in directly, sure.