Public bug reported:

== SRU Justification ==

Impact: Up to 30% performance regression for traffic from hypervisor
host to VM, caused by a memory leak

Fix: Cherry-picks from upstream stable tree to fix the memory leak

Regression Potential: Merged in 4.15 and 4.14.7, tested and verified by
multiple people.

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See 
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/<[email protected]>
 for the original report and extensive discussion
See 
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/<[email protected]> 
for the patch series in question

I'll send an SRU patch set with cherry-picks from 4.14.7 .

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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