[SRU][Xenial][PATCH 0/2] Fixes for LP:1744078

Colin Ian King colin.king at canonical.com
Thu Feb 1 21:04:46 UTC 2018


On 01/02/18 20:58, Joseph Salisbury wrote:
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1744078
> 
> == SRU Justification ==
> On kernel versions < 4.8: x-netns vti is broken due to this bug.  This is resolved by the following commit:
> 11d7a0bb95ea ("xfrm: Only add l3mdev oif to dst lookups")     
> 
> This is a regression introduced by: commit 42a7b32b73d6 ("xfrm: Add oif to dst lookups")
> 
> Commit 1a8524794fc is also required as a prereq to fix build errors after picking
> commit 11d7a0bb95ea into Xenial.
> 
> Commit 11d7a0bb95ea is in mainline as of v4.8-rc7.  It was also cc'd to upstream
> stable, but it never landed in upstream 4.4.y as of yet.
> 
> == Fixes ==
> 1a8524794fc "(net: l3mdev: Add master device lookup by index)"
> 11d7a0bb95e "(xfrm: Only add l3mdev oif to dst lookups)"
> 
> == Regression Potential ==
> Low.  These patches are required to fix an existing regression.
> 
> == Test Case ==
> A test kernel was built with these patches and tested by the original bug reporter.
> The bug reporter states the test kernel resolved the bug.
> 
> David Ahern (2):
>   net: l3mdev: Add master device lookup by index
>   xfrm: Only add l3mdev oif to dst lookups
> 
>  include/net/l3mdev.h    | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  net/ipv4/xfrm4_policy.c |  2 +-
>  net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c |  2 +-
>  3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
Positive test results, clean upstream commits.

One question, the report states "On kernel versions < 4.8: x-netns vti
is broken due to this bug..", does this need fixing on pre-Xenial LTS
kernels too?

For Xenial:

Acked-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>




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