linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] inet/connection_sock: prefer _THIS_IP_ to current_text

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Date:   Thu, 02 Aug 2018 15:17:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     ndesaulniers@...gle.com
Cc:     natechancellor@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] inet/connection_sock: prefer _THIS_IP_ to
 current_text_addr

From: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2018 15:10:00 -0700

> On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 2:42 PM David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>>
>> From: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
>> Date: Wed,  1 Aug 2018 14:57:59 -0700
>>
>> > As part of the effort to reduce the code duplication between _THIS_IP_
>> > and current_text_addr(), let's consolidate callers of
>> > current_text_addr() to use _THIS_IP_.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
>>
>> I'll ACk this for now:
>>
>> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> 
> Thank you David.  Should you take it into the net tree, can you please add:
> 
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # 4.17, 4.14, 4.9, 4.4
> 
> to the commit message? This will help us as Nathan stated previously
> in this thread.

Why in the world is this a stable candidate?  It doesn't fix a bug.

My understanding is that you are trying to do a consolidation of code
and clean things up so that only one interface is used.

That means it should, at best, go to the net-next tree.

Thank you.