[SRU][Xenial][PATCH 0/1] tipc: move linearization of buffers to generic code

[Joseph Salisbury]

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1567064


== SRU Justification ==
The TIPC binding table sometimes fails to update correctly between nodes 
because we don't linearize nonlinear buffers at two places where it is needed 
in the code.

In the upstream kernel at kernel.org, the following commit was applied on Nov 19th 2015:
commit c7cad0d6f70cd4ce8644ffe528a4df1cdc2e77f5 ("tipc: move linearization of 
buffers to generic code") that fixes this issue.

This crucial fix made it into kernel 4.5, but unfortunately not into 4.4 
that is used in Xenial, and makes TIPC in Xenial almost unusable as it is now.



== Fix ==
commit c7cad0d6f70cd4ce8644ffe528a4df1cdc2e77f5
Author: Jon Paul Maloy <jon.maloy at ericsson.com>
Date:   Thu Nov 19 14:30:40 2015 -0500

    tipc: move linearization of buffers to generic code



== Test Case ==
A test kernel was built with this patch and tested by the original bug reporter.
The bug reporter states the test kernel resolved the bug.





Jon Paul Maloy (1):
  tipc: move linearization of buffers to generic code

 net/tipc/link.c       | 2 ++
 net/tipc/name_distr.c | 1 +
 net/tipc/udp_media.c  | 5 -----
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

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