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

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Date:   Sun, 5 Aug 2018 07:41:19 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>
Cc:     open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, patches@...nelci.org,
        Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk>,
        lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org,
        linux- stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 000/124] 4.4.146-stable review

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@...uxfoundation.org> 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 Linaro’s 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