net stable backport request for 24.04 lts

[Daniel Borkmann]

Hey Ubuntu kernel team,

It would be awesome if you have a chance to cherry-pick these commits for networking to 24.04LTS kernel which are also going to stable kernel trees:

- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d6fe532b7499e4575f9647879b7a34625817fe7f
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3998d184267dfcff858aaa84d3de17429253629d
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1cd4bc987abb2823836cbb8f887026011ccddc8a

Thanks a lot for your help,
Daniel

[Matthew Ruffell (mruffell)]

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for your contributions!

There's two ways we get patches into our Ubuntu kernels, the first is a LP bug
per patchset that ideally fixes one specific issue, has a testcase etc and then
we submit patches for review to the Ubuntu Kernel Mailing list.

The process is:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/KernelUpdates
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/StablePatchFormat

The second is we take upstream stable patches and apply them wholesale.

I think the best way for you is to wait for them to be pulled in via upstream
stable. Looking at stable-queue from Greg KH and Sasha Levin:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/commit/?id=72b0cfbaddd2d041748637c1d9e69b83c1a99ec3

The netkit patches are already queued up, and will likely be in 6.9.4, which
will probably be applied in 2-3 months time, and your vxlan patch has yet to
reach stable-queue.

If you are in a hurry, I can help create SRU templates for you and format things
correctly. You just need to supply some justifications and testcases we can
verify.

Thanks,
Matthew

[Daniel Borkmann (dborkman)]

Hi Matthew,

Thanks a lot for your reply! If you track the upstream stable queue and cherry-pick everything that is really perfect. The vxlan fix I submitted to stable yesterday and I'd expect it to be queued some time around next week.

Thanks,
Daniel