please help backporting some patches to stable release 22.11.7

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Fri Oct 25 01:59:00 CEST 2024


On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 22:31:52 +0100
luca.boccassi at gmail.com wrote:

> Hi commit authors (and maintainers),
> 
> Despite being selected by the DPDK maintenance tool ./devtools/git-log-fixes.sh
> I didn't apply following commits from DPDK main to 22.11
> stable branch, as conflicts or build errors occur.
> 
> Can authors check your patches in the following list and either:
>     - Backport your patches to the 22.11 branch, or
>     - Indicate that the patch should not be backported
> 
> Please do either of the above by 2024/10/30.
> 
> You can find the a temporary work-in-progress branch of the coming 22.11.7
> release at:
>     https://github.com/bluca/dpdk-stable
> It is recommended to backport on top of that to minimize further conflicts or
> misunderstandings.
> 
> Some notes on stable backports:
> 
> A backport should contain a reference to the DPDK main branch commit
> in it's commit message in the following fashion:
>     [ upstream commit <commit's dpdk main branch SHA-1 checksum> ]
> 
> For example:
>     https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable/commit/?h=18.11&id=d90e6ae6f936ecdc2fd3811ff9f26aec7f3c06eb
> 
> When sending the backported patch, please indicate the target branch in the
> subject line, as we have multiple branches, for example:
>     [PATCH 22.11] foo/bar: fix baz
> 
> With git format-patch, this can be achieved by appending the parameter:
>     --subject-prefix='PATCH 22.11'
> 
> Send the backported patch to "stable at dpdk.org" but not "dev at dpdk.org".
> 
> FYI, branch 22.11 is located at tree:
>    https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Luca Boccassi
> 
> ---
> d16364e3bd  Bruce Richardson common/idpf: fix AVX-512 pointer copy on 32-bit
> b34fe66ea8  Bruce Richardson net/iavf: delay VF reset command
> f665790a5d  David Marchand   drivers: remove redundant newline from logs
> e4a4087992  Gavin Li         net/mlx5: set errno for ipool allocation failures
> 6c3de40af8  Nithin Dabilpuram common/cnxk: fix inline CTX write
> 6db358536f  Oleksandr Nahnybida pcapng: fix handling of chained mbufs
> 6f96937dad  Robin Jarry      ethdev: fix race on ports in telemetry endpoints
> 4baf54ed9d  Stephen Hemminger common/idpf: fix use after free in mailbox init
> 2d4505dc6d  Sunil Kumar Kori common/cnxk: fix MAC address change with active VF
> b04b06f4cb  Viacheslav Ovsiienko net/mlx5: fix flex item header length field translation
> 97e19f0762  Viacheslav Ovsiienko net/mlx5: fix non full word sample fields in flex item
> 2254813795  Zerun Fu         net/nfp: notify flower firmware about PF speed

Although you may not want to backport the malloc annotations to the release.
It is a useful way to see if you found all the rte_free bugs that were marked for stable.
commit 80da7efbb4c4216de93b1039b891a6f31fa06f2d

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