linux-kernel - Re: Patch "xsk: Add cb area to struct xdp_buff_xsk" has been added to the 5.15-stable tree

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Date:   Mon, 21 Aug 2023 21:11:43 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Björn Töpel <bjorn@...nel.org>,
        stable-commits@...r.kernel.org, toke@...hat.com,
        Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@...el.com>,
        Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@...el.com>,
        Jonathan Lemon <jonathan.lemon@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Patch "xsk: Add cb area to struct xdp_buff_xsk" has been added
 to the 5.15-stable tree

On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 11:22:37AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 03:52:21PM +0200, Björn Töpel wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 Aug 2023 at 17:06, Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > > 
> > >     xsk: Add cb area to struct xdp_buff_xsk
> > > 
> > > to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at:
> > >     http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> > > 
> > > The filename of the patch is:
> > >      xsk-add-cb-area-to-struct-xdp_buff_xsk.patch
> > > and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
> > > 
> > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> > > please let <stable@...r.kernel.org> know about it.
> > 
> > Sasha, I'm a bit out of the loop, but AFAIU this fix is aimed at
> > supporting XDP hints with AF_XDP ZC, which does not exist in 5.15.
> > IOW, it shouldn't be applied to 5.15.
> 
> Right, the patch does nothing on it's own - it's there just to address a
> context conflict with a later patch.

I don't see the context conflict here, so I'll drop this patch from the
queue.  Sasha, you might want to check your scripts here...

thanks,

greg k-h