netdev - Re: [PATCH v4.14-stable] sch_netem: restore skb->dev after dequeuing from the rbtree

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Date:   Tue, 30 Oct 2018 12:12:51 -0700
From:   Eduardo Valentin <eduval@...zon.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:     <cpaasch@...le.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        <stable@...r.kernel.org>, <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        <luqia@...zon.com>, <edumazet@...gle.com>, <soheil@...gle.com>,
        <weiwan@...gle.com>, <willemb@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4.14-stable] sch_netem: restore skb->dev after dequeuing
 from the rbtree

Greg,

On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 03:43:48PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Christoph Paasch <cpaasch@...le.com>
> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 13:38:40 -0700
> 
> > Upstream commit bffa72cf7f9d ("net: sk_buff rbnode reorg") got
> > backported as commit 6b921536f170 ("net: sk_buff rbnode reorg") into the
> > v4.14.x-tree.
> > 
> > However, the backport does not include the changes in sch_netem.c
> > 
> > We need these, as otherwise the skb->dev pointer is not set when
> > dequeueing from the netem rbtree, resulting in a panic:
>  ...
> > Fixes: 6b921536f170 ("net: sk_buff rbnode reorg")
> > Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
> > Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> > Cc: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>
> > Cc: Wei Wang <weiwan@...gle.com>
> > Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Christoph Paasch <cpaasch@...le.com>
> > ---
> > 
> > Notes:
> >     This patch should only make it into v4.14-stable as that's the only branch where
> >     the offending commit has been backported to.
> 
> Greg, please queue up.

Are you planing to queue this one ?

Looks to me it was a miss on the backport.

It seams that the backport was touching different files, and missed the change
on net/sched/sch_netem.c. So, to me, even if this patch may not follow the
strictly the rules of stable, as it is not a patch in upstream, seams to be a 
needed change, even if it is specific to stable linux-4.14.y.

> 

-- 
All the best,
Eduardo Valentin