netdev - Re: [PATCH net] inet: fully convert sk->sk_rx

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Message-ID: <Y1HR61VKKNFRv/X9@google.com>
Date:   Thu, 20 Oct 2022 22:55:39 +0000
From:   Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@...gle.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, liuwei.a@...o.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] inet: fully convert sk->sk_rx_dst to RCU rules

On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 02:53:06PM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 2:05 PM Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@...gle.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 06:33:30AM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 
> >
> > Eric, this patch was picked for v5.15 stable and I wonder whether this
> > needs to be backported to older branches too. The Fixes commit quoted
> > here seems to go back all the way to v3.5. Would you know?
> 
> I guess nobody cared to address some merge conflicts on older kernel versions.
> 
> If you want, you could handle the backport, this patch can help some
> rare race windows
> on preemptable kernels.

Sounds good, I'll have a look at backporting this patch.