Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4-only] openvswitch: clear sender cpu before forwarding packets

From: Greg KH <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 10:19:33 +0200

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 03:25:10PM +0100, Anoob Soman wrote:
> Similar to commit c29390c6dfee ("xps: must clear sender_cpu before
> forwarding") the skb->sender_cpu needs to be cleared before forwarding
> packets.
> 
> Fixes: 2bd82484bb4c ("xps: fix xps for stacked devices")
> Signed-off-by: Anoob Soman <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  net/openvswitch/vport.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Why is this a non-upstream patch?  What commit in Linus's tree fixed
this?  Why not just backport that?

thanks,

greg k-h