On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-11-02 at 16:40 -0800, Ani Sinha wrote:
>> [ Upstream commit 44f49dd8b5a606870a1f2 ]
>
> Please carefully read Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt

I don't see any recent releases of 3.18 version series in Greg KH's
tree. Is the 3.18 stable train being maintained by Sasha here?

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/sashal/linux-stable.git/

If that is the case, should 3.18 specific backport patches be sent
directly to him ?

>
> 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:
>         http://git.kernel.org/cgit/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$
>
>
>
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