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

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Message-ID: <CAKwvOdnp7R094sbsyKi921ZVB8BD+d-8L37mcPv0UjMMF4QqDg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 2 Aug 2018 15:10:00 -0700
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] inet/connection_sock: prefer _THIS_IP_ to current_text_addr

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.
-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers