linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 009/126] sit: fix sit0 percpu double allocations

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Message-Id: <20151213.171406.878570563174220825.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 13 Dec 2015 17:14:06 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	ben@...adent.org.uk, luis.henriques@...onical.com,
	edumazet@...gle.com, steffen.klassert@...unet.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 009/126] sit: fix sit0 percpu double
 allocations

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2015 12:43:10 -0800

> 2) I have no idea why this patch is even backported to 3.16,
>  since it is fixing a problem added in 3.18 :

Because someone on the path to some of the -stable trees aren't even
checking the Fixes: tag in the patches they are backporting.

And that's really bad...
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