On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 4:33 PM, Stephen Hemminger
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jul 2018 18:12:46 -0700
> Mahesh Bandewar <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> From: Mahesh Bandewar <[email protected]>
>>
>> Commit b89f04c61efe ("bonding: deliver link-local packets with
>> skb->dev set to link that packets arrived on") changed the behavior
>> of how link-local-multicast packets are processed. The change in
>> the behavior broke some legacy use cases where these packets are
>> expected to arrive on bonding master device also.
>>
>> This patch passes the packet to the stack with the link it arrived
>> on as well as passes to the bonding-master device to preserve the
>> legacy use case.
>>
>> Reported-by: Michal Soltys <[email protected]>
>> Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <[email protected]>
>
> Thanks for fixing this.
>
> Why not add a Fixes: tag instead of just talking about the commit?
> That helps the stable maintainers know which versions of the kernel
> need the patch.
Well, I thought about it. It's definitely 'related' but not sure it
'fixes' in true sense. It definitely fixes the broken legacy case
though. Is that sufficient to add 'fixes' tag?
