This fixes an old bug in iproute2's ss command because it was reading slabinfo to get statistics. There isn't a better API to do this, and one can argue that /proc is a UAPI that must not change.
Therefore this patch set adds a flag to slab to give another reason to prevent merging, and then uses it in network code. The patches are against davem's linux-net tree and should also goto stable as well. Stephen Hemminger (2): slab: add flag to block merging of UAPI elements net: mark slab's used by ss as UAPI include/linux/slab.h | 6 ++++++ mm/slab_common.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/tcp.c | 3 ++- net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 2 +- net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 2 +- net/socket.c | 6 +++--- 6 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) -- 2.16.1
