ACK/Cmnt: [SRU][J][PATCH 0/1] net: openvswitch: fix misuse of the cached connection on tuple changes

[Tim Gardner]

On 7/6/22 06:36, Frode Nordahl wrote:
> Buglink: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1967856
> 
> SRU Justification:
> 
> [Impact]
> 
> Users of Open vSwitch on Jammy will be affected by this bug and
> have no user space fix available.  This bug currently blocks the
> OpenStack Engineering team's charm product gate.
> 
> [Fix]
> 
> * cba7c76ea1e15fddb95706eb64659644a6a02b38 "net: openvswitch: fix
> misuse of the cached connection on tuple changes"
> 
> [Test Plan]
> 
> A reproducer has been attached to the bug and can be executed with
> the OVS system testsuite.
> 
> [Where problems could occur]
> 
> The regression potential can be considered as low because:
> - The calls added in the openvswitch kernel datapath code would
>    prior to Open vSwitch 2.16.0 have been initiated from the
>    userspace code and by chance concealed this bug.
> - After an optimization done in 2.16.0 the kernel bug was
>    revealed and these calls now must be made from the kernel
>    datapath to retain functionality in use in the wild.
> 
Acked-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>

I think we can ignore Impish since it is going EOL.
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Tim Gardner
Canonical, Inc