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

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Date:   Mon, 20 Jan 2020 19:47:29 +0100 (CET)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     sashal@...nel.org
Cc:     idosch@...sch.org, hegtvedt@...co.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: Regression in macvlan driver in stable release 4.4.209

From: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 13:35:15 -0500

> 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?

Sure, no problem.