netdev - Re: Regression in macvlan driver in stable release 4.4.209

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Date:   Mon, 20 Jan 2020 13:35:15 -0500
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>
Cc:     "Hans-Christian Egtvedt (hegtvedt)" <hegtvedt@...co.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: Regression in macvlan driver in stable release 4.4.209

On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 11:57:14AM +0200, Ido Schimmel wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 09:17:35AM +0000, Hans-Christian Egtvedt (hegtvedt) wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am seeing a regression in the macvlan kernel driver after Linux stable
>> release 4.4.209, bisecting identifies commit
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=linux-4.4.y&id=8d28d7e88851b1081b05dc269a27df1c8a903f3e
>
>Noticed it too last week (on net-next), but Eric already fixed it:
>https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1712b2fff8c682d145c7889d2290696647d82dab
>
>I assume the patch will find its way to 4.4.y soon now that it is in
>mainline.

David, any objection if I grab this patch directly to fix the regression
in the next stable kernel release?

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha