netdev - Re: [xfrm, backport request] Request backport of e2612cd496e7

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Date:   Wed, 6 Feb 2019 17:29:38 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@...il.com>
Cc:     Benedict Wong <benedictwong@...gle.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...gle.com>,
        Linux NetDev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Nathan Harold <nharold@...gle.com>,
        Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@...gle.com>,
        Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>,
        Eyal Birger <eyal.birger@...il.com>, tobias@...ongswan.org
Subject: Re: [xfrm, backport request] Request backport of e2612cd496e7 -
 set-mark backwards compatibility

On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 02:54:29PM -0800, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:
> > I propose backporting commit e2612cd496e7 ("xfrm: Make set-mark default
> > behavior backward compatible") to 4.19 and 4.20 kernels to fix a backwards
> > compatibility bug introduced in 9b42c1f179a6 (“xfrm: Extend the
> > output_mark to support input direction and masking”).
> >
> > The fix is small, relatively simple, and has unit tests. :)
> >
> > Without this change, systems using mark-based routing on 4.19 or 4.20
> > kernels will by fail to route IPsec tunnel mode packets correctly in the
> > default case. This specifically affects Android devices.
> 
> Looks like it already includes a 'fixes: sha1' tag.
> I'm not sure what causes these patches to get picked up for stable...
> I'm guessing it's some sort of Greg-fu-style-magic...?

<formletter>

This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree.  Please read:
    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
for how to do this properly.

</formletter>

Hint, putting a fixes tag there does NOT trigger my scripts...