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

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Nov 30 2016 - 10:37:41 EST


On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 09:50:42AM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> 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.

Understood.

> But feel free to take it in directly, sure.

Thanks, now queued up.

greg k-h