netdev - Re: [PATCH stable 0/3] SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT

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Message-ID: <YlGvqEM0zbDc7OpX@sashalap>
Date:   Sat, 9 Apr 2022 12:09:12 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>,
        stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>,
        Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH stable 0/3] SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_ID backport to 4.14 and
 4.19

On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 05:42:30PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 03:29:30PM +0000, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
>> Hello Greg, Sasha,
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 06, 2022 at 10:29:53PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
>> > As discussed with Willem here:
>> > https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CA+FuTSdQ57O6RWj_Lenmu_Vd3NEX9xMzMYkB0C3rKMzGgcPc6A@mail.gmail.com/T/
>> >
>> > the kernel silently doesn't act upon the SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_ID socket
>> > option in several cases on older kernels, yet user space has no way to
>> > find out about this, practically resulting in broken functionality.
>> >
>> > This patch set backports the support towards linux-4.14.y and linux-4.19.y,
>> > which fixes the issue described above by simply making the kernel act
>> > upon SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_ID as expected.
>> >
>> > Testing was done with the most recent (not the vintage-correct one)
>> > kselftest script at:
>> > tools/testing/selftests/networking/timestamping/txtimestamp.sh
>> > with the message "OK. All tests passed".
>>
>> Could you please pick up these backports for "stable"? Thanks.
>
>You sent this 2 days ago!
>
>Please relax :)

I've queued these up.

In general, we don't pick up new patches during -rc releases, which is
when you've sent this patchset and which is why sometimes it takes a few
days for stuff to go in.

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha