netdev - Re: [PATCH net 0/2] Fixes for SO_REUSEPORT and mixed v4/v6 sockets

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Date:	Thu, 14 Apr 2016 21:18:02 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	kraigatgoog@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/2] Fixes for SO_REUSEPORT and mixed v4/v6 sockets

From: Craig Gallek <kraigatgoog@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 13:11:24 -0400

> From: Craig Gallek <kraig@...gle.com>
> 
> Recent changes to the datastructures associated with SO_REUSEPORT broke
> an existing behavior when equivalent SO_REUSEPORT sockets are created
> using both AF_INET and AF_INET6.  This patch series restores the previous
> behavior and includes a test to validate it.
> 
> This series should be a trivial merge to stable kernels (if deemed
> necessary), but will have conflicts in net-next.  The following patches
> recently replaced the use of hlist_nulls with hlists for UDP and TCP
> socket lists:
> ca065d0cf80f ("udp: no longer use SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU")
> 3b24d854cb35 ("tcp/dccp: do not touch listener sk_refcnt under synflood")
> 
> If this series is accepted, I will send an RFC for the net-next change
> to assist with the merge.

Applied and patch #1 queued up for -stable.