netdev - Re: [PATCH 4.4-only] openvswitch: clear sender cpu before forwarding packets

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20170517081933.GA25610@kroah.com>
Date:   Wed, 17 May 2017 10:19:33 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Anoob Soman <anoob.soman@...rix.com>
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org, pshelar@...ira.com, davem@...emloft.net,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, dev@...nvswitch.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4-only] openvswitch: clear sender cpu before forwarding
 packets

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 03:25:10PM +0100, Anoob Soman wrote:
> Similar to commit c29390c6dfee ("xps: must clear sender_cpu before
> forwarding") the skb->sender_cpu needs to be cleared before forwarding
> packets.
> 
> Fixes: 2bd82484bb4c ("xps: fix xps for stacked devices")
> Signed-off-by: Anoob Soman <anoob.soman@...rix.com>
> ---
>  net/openvswitch/vport.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Why is this a non-upstream patch?  What commit in Linus's tree fixed
this?  Why not just backport that?

thanks,

greg k-h