Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH V6] Bundle fixes for Xen netfront / netback

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2013-04-18 at 02:20 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:21:20PM +0100, David Miller wrote:
> > From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:43:17 +0100
> > 
> > > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 08:31:19PM +0100, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > >> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 06:41:59PM +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> > >> > Final round of this series. All acked and ready to go in.
> > >> 
> > >> Should you put CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on some of them?
> > > 
> > > I don't think so: Ian Campbell told me that DaveM would like the patches
> > > to go through his tree.
> > 
> > That's rather irrelevant.
> 
> Sorry I'm still learning the process of doing netdev. If you can
> straighten it out for me that would be very helpful.
> 
> The handle I have is:
> http://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=136552034026257&w=2
> 
> QUOTE
> "> This should probably also CC stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> DaveM prefers net patches to not do so and he takes care of forwarding
> patches once he is happy (i.e. after they've been in his/Linus' tree for
> a bit)."
> /QUOTE
> 
> But it seems that Ian got you wrong.

I based my comment on
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=136029787424755&w=2 but its possible
something got lost in translation (in particular the "ask me to queue it
up to my -stable todo pile instead" bit").

> So this patch series is considered both for net-next and stable because
> it is basement for our future development and we would also like it to
> get backported to stable.

Nevermind future development, we want it in stable because it fixes
regressions in the previous XSA-39/CVE-2013-0216+CVE-2013-0217 fixes
which went into stable.

Ian.


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