On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 11:51:24AM +0100, Sven Eckelmann wrote: > On Donnerstag, 17. November 2016 11:32:51 CET Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > 4.8-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > > > ------------------ > > > > From: Linus Lüssing <[email protected]> > > > > commit 9799c50372b23ed774791bdb87d700f1286ee8a9 upstream. > > > > As long as there is still a reference for a hard interface held, there might > > still be a forwarding packet relying on its attributes. > > > > Therefore avoid setting hard_iface->soft_iface to NULL when disabling a hard > > interface. > > > > This fixes the following, potential splat: > > > [...] > > Thanks for your backporting efforts. There is already a revert for this patch > queued up in batadv/net [1] (targets net.git). So maybe you want to drop this > patch from your stable queue. > > We also got test results from Linus which showed that this problem didn't > happen anymore with recent kernel versions (without his patch). These results > made him also Ack the revert. > > Sorry about this confusing situation.
Not a problem, I've dropped this one from the patch queue now, thanks for letting me know. greg k-h
