Hi, I reported back to your colleague Joseph Salisbury on April 18th that the fix was tested and found ok. I have pasted in our conversation below. There must be a misunderstanding somewhere.
BR ///jon >I just submitted an SRU request for inclusion in Xenial. The bug status >will changed to "Fix Commited" when the fix lands in the -proposed >repository. It will then changed to "Fix Released" when it is in the >official kernel. [...] >>Hi, >>I have installed and tested it as far as I could without being able to >>reproduce the problem. >>You can go ahead. >> >>Thank you for your help. >>///jon >> >> PS. I hope I will receive a hint when this is officially released, so I can >> alert the users who have seen the problem. > -----Original Message----- > From: boun...@canonical.com [mailto:boun...@canonical.com] On Behalf Of > Kamal Mostafa > Sent: Monday, 25 April, 2016 16:02 > To: Jon Maloy > Subject: [Bug 1567064] Re: tipc: missing linearization of sk_buff > > This bug is awaiting verification that the kernel in -proposed solves > the problem. Please test the kernel and update this bug with the > results. If the problem is solved, change the tag 'verification-needed- > xenial' to 'verification-done-xenial'. > > If verification is not done by 5 working days from today, this fix will > be dropped from the source code, and this bug will be closed. > > See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how > to enable and use -proposed. Thank you! > > > ** Tags added: verification-needed-xenial > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1567064 > > Title: > tipc: missing linearization of sk_buff > > Status in linux package in Ubuntu: > In Progress > Status in linux source package in Xenial: > Fix Committed > > Bug description: > The TIPC binding table sometimes fails to update correctly between > nodes because we don't linearize nonlinear buffers at two places where > it is needed in the code. > > In the upstream kernel at kernel.org, the following commit was applied > on Nov 19th 2015: > > commit c7cad0d6f70cd4ce8644ffe528a4df1cdc2e77f5 ("tipc: move > linearization of buffers to generic code") that fixes this issue. > > This crucial fix made it into kernel 4.5, but unfortunately not into > 4.4 that is used in Xenial, and makes TIPC in Xenial almost unusable > as it is now. > > Now I am uncertain about how to proceed with this, since I am new with > dealing > with the Ubuntu kernel. > - Do you apply such fixes from kernel.org if I post a new one to > kernel.org/stable? (The one referred to above won't apply cleanly to 4.4). > - Or should I issue a new one directly to Ubuntu's kernel team ? > - Or do you fix it yourself (it it pretty trivial and safe if you take a > look at the > original commit I refer to) ? > > BR > Jon Maloy > Ericsson Canada Inc > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1567064/+subscriptions -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1567064 Title: tipc: missing linearization of sk_buff To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1567064/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
