please help backporting some patches to stable release 23.11.7

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:19:15 +0300
Shani Peretz <shperetz at nvidia.com> wrote:

> 00d41387a5  Stephen Hemminger net/mlx5: fix build with LTO
Not urgent, uses __rte_assume macro which was introduced 
Commit bf7ded9a07f6 ("eal: add unreachable and precondition hints")

> abacc3b2da  Stephen Hemminger net/tap: fix handling of queue stats
Depends on queue statistics changes introduced in 25.11

> 8c7751daa8  Stephen Hemminger net/tap: fix resource leaks on creation failure
Error path only, not really worth it.

> c67f59508d  Stephen Hemminger net/tap: fix Rx descriptor vs scatter segment confusion
This patch is too big to backport safely. 

> 77f831b6f1  Stephen Hemminger pcapng: handle packets copied before file open
Not worth back port.