On 25/02/2026 17:17, Morten Brørup wrote: >> From: Kevin Traynor [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Wednesday, 25 February 2026 16.59 >> >> On 10/02/2026 17:21, Thomas Monjalon wrote: >>> 20/01/2026 08:24, Morten Brørup: >>>> mbuf: fix packet copy >>>> >>>> Requests for copying the at the end of a packet incorrectly returned >> NULL, >>>> as if copying past the end of a packet. >>>> >>>> When allocating the mbuf for the copy from a mempool using pinned >> external >>>> buffers, the external flag in this mbuf was not preserved. >>>> >>>> Fixes: c3a90c381daa ("mbuf: add a copy routine") >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Morten Brørup <[email protected]> >>>> Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <[email protected]> >>> >>> Applied, thanks. >>> >>> >>> >> Hi All. I see this is not marked for stable release. Is it deliberate >> because of the flags changes ? > > IIRC, the consensus was that using pinned external buffers is considered > exotic, so the bug is unlikely to occur in real applications. And if it did > happen, we would have heard about it. > > But, since you ask, we really should have left that decision to the stable > tree maintainers. >
Thanks Morten. Background knowledge and context is important, so it's fine you made a decision on it, I just wanted to check. > -Morten >
