netdev - Re: xen-netback regression in 3.10.18

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Date:	Sat, 09 Nov 2013 15:57:05 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	david.vrabel@...rix.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	paul.durrant@...rix.com, ian.campbell@...rix.com,
	wei.liu2@...rix.com
Subject: Re: xen-netback regression in 3.10.18

From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 12:15:33 +0000

> 3.10.18 included 279f438e36c0 (xen-netback: Don't destroy the netdev
> until the vif is shut down) but this has a regression that was fixed by
> dc62ccaccfb1 (xen-netback: transition to CLOSED when removing a VIF)
> 
> dc62ccaccfb1 depends on ea732dff5cfa (xen-netback: Handle backend state
> transitions in a more robust way) which is also a bug fix for certain
> Windows frontend drivers and is thus also a stable candidate.
> 
> Dave can you ensure these two commits are tagged for the next 3.10.y
> stable release?
> 
>   ea732dff5cfa10789007bf4a5b935388a0bb2a8f
>   dc62ccaccfb139d9b04bbc5a2688a4402adbfab3

Ian already asked me to do this, and the commits are necessary for
3.11 -stable as well.

They've been queued up.
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