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

[Brad Figg]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 05:14:30PM -0400, Joseph Salisbury wrote:
> 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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Looks ok.

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