On Mon, 2018-05-14 at 15:47 +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote: > Hi Ben, > > some Debian/jessie systems were caught by the bug-report in [1]. > This issue was recently fixed in an updated Debian kernel for v3.16.y. > > Will you include the patch "tun: allow positive return values on > dev_get_valid_name() call" [2] in linux-stable-3.16.y upstream? Yes, I will include all the same regression fixes in the next 3.16- stable update. Ben. > This was a fix for "tun: call dev_get_valid_name() before > register_netdevice()" [3]. > Unfortunately, there is not a reference (usually "Fixes:" tag) for this in [2]. > Not sure if this was documented in the meantime like [4] says. > > Thanks in advance. > > Regards, > - Sedat - > > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=897427 > [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5c25f65fd1e42685f7ccd80e0621829c105785d9 > [3] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0ad646c81b2182f7fa67ec0c8c825e0ee165696d > [4] https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg462705.html -- Ben Hutchings For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. - Harrison
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