Re: [PATCH 4.4 000/124] 4.4.146-stable review

[Guenter Roeck]

On 08/05/2018 06:49 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 05, 2018 at 05:24:21PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> > On 4 August 2018 at 14:29, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.146 release.
> > > There are 124 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 Mon Aug  6 08:26:39 UTC 2018.
> > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > >
> > > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> > >          https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.4.146-rc1.gz
> > > or in the git tree and branch at:
> > >          git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.4.y
> > > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > greg k-h
> >
> > Results from Linaroâs test farm.
> > No regressions on arm64, arm and x86_64.
>
> Really?  How did you all miss the netfilter bug that was introduced by
> this series?

If I understand the related exchange correctly, this bug exists upstream as well,
and no one caught it there either. I am also not sure if there are secondary
conditions, such as the number of multicast groups. Given that, I don't really
feel that bad. On the contrary, kudos to Nathan for catching it.

This just shows that our testing is not perfect and needs to improve further.

Guenter