Subject: Re: Some questions Re: [PATCH net] net: dsa: fix panic when DSA master device unbinds on shutdown

From: Sasha Levin <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 12:30:16 -0400

On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 05:34:19PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 11:14:09AM +0200, Paolo Abeni wrote:
>> On Wed, 2024-04-10 at 09:06 +0000, xu wrote:
>> > Hi! Excuse me, I'm wondering why this patch was not merged into the 5.15 stable branch.
>>
>> Because it lacked the CC: stable tag?
>>
>> You can still ask (or do) an explicit backport, please have a look at:
>>
>> Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Paolo
>>
>
>My email records say that it was backported to 5.16:
>https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email-masked]/
>On 5.15 I have no idea why not (no email).

Happy to answer why!

It was proposed for 5.15, but dropped due to build failures:

	https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email-masked]/

The missing functions were later brought to the 5.15 tree via:

	https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email-masked]/

At this point, Greg's current backport of the commit in question was
successful.

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha