Dear David,
On 06/01/17 18:19, David Miller wrote:
Neither of us have anything to do with the 4.4 -stable series. We only
manage stable backport submissions for the most recent two releases.
Thank you for the prompt response. Should the netdev FAQ be updated then
to contain that information?
Q: How can I tell what patches are queued up for backporting to the
various stable releases?
A: Normally Greg Kroah-Hartman collects stable commits himself, but
for networking, Dave collects up patches he deems critical for the
networking subsystem, and then hands them off to Greg.
There is a patchworks queue that you can see here:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/bundle/davem/stable/?state=*
It contains the patches which Dave has selected, but not yet handed
off to Greg. If Greg already has the patch, then it will be here:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git
A quick way to find whether the patch is in this stable-queue is
to simply clone the repo, and then git grep the mainline commit ID, e.g.
stable-queue$ git grep -l 284041ef21fdf2e
releases/3.0.84/ipv6-fix-possible-crashes-in-ip6_cork_release.patch
releases/3.4.51/ipv6-fix-possible-crashes-in-ip6_cork_release.patch
releases/3.9.8/ipv6-fix-possible-crashes-in-ip6_cork_release.patch
stable/stable-queue$
Kind regards,
Paul
[1] Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt
