ACK: [SRU][Bionic][PATCH 0/3] Fixes for LP:1774225

Kleber Souza kleber.souza at canonical.com
Fri Jul 27 16:02:16 UTC 2018


On 06/22/18 19:49, Joseph Salisbury wrote:
> == SRU Justification ==
> 6Wind is requesting these three patches. The patches fix a bug that prevents a user
> from following an interface that moves to another netns.
> 
> These commits are also needed in Xenial.  However, they will be sent in
> a separate SRU request due to additional prereq commits being needed for
> Xenial.
> 
> == Fixes ==
> b2d3bcfa26a7 ("net: core: Expose number of link up/down transitions")
> c36ac8e23073 ("dev: always advertise the new nsid when the netns iface changes")
> 38e01b30563a ("dev: advertise the new ifindex when the netns iface changes")
> 
> == Regression Potential ==
> Medium due to three patches needed and the changes to core networking. 
> 
> == 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 Decotigny (1):
>   net: core: Expose number of link up/down transitions
> 
> Nicolas Dichtel (2):
>   dev: always advertise the new nsid when the netns iface changes
>   dev: advertise the new ifindex when the netns iface changes
> 
>  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net | 24 +++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/netdevice.h                 |  6 +++--
>  include/linux/rtnetlink.h                 |  5 ++--
>  include/uapi/linux/if_link.h              |  3 +++
>  net/core/dev.c                            | 22 +++++++++-------
>  net/core/net-sysfs.c                      | 25 +++++++++++++++++-
>  net/core/rtnetlink.c                      | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  net/sched/sch_generic.c                   |  4 +--
>  8 files changed, 103 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
> 

The patches look safe to pull in.

Acked-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza at canonical.com>




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