Subject: Re: [PATCH next] bonding: pass link-local packets to bonding master also.

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 16:33:53 -0700

On Sun, 15 Jul 2018 18:12:46 -0700
Mahesh Bandewar <[email-masked]> wrote:

> From: Mahesh Bandewar <[email-masked]>
> 
> Commit b89f04c61efe ("bonding: deliver link-local packets with
> skb->dev set to link that packets arrived on") changed the behavior
> of how link-local-multicast packets are processed. The change in
> the behavior broke some legacy use cases where these packets are
> expected to arrive on bonding master device also.
> 
> This patch passes the packet to the stack with the link it arrived
> on as well as passes to the bonding-master device to preserve the
> legacy use case.
> 
> Reported-by: Michal Soltys <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <[email-masked]>

Thanks for fixing this.

Why not add a Fixes: tag instead of just talking about the commit?
That helps the stable maintainers know which versions of the kernel
need the patch.