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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 009/126] sit: fix sit0 percpu double
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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2015 12:43:10 -0800

> 2) I have no idea why this patch is even backported to 3.16,
>  since it is fixing a problem added in 3.18 :

Because someone on the path to some of the -stable trees aren't even
checking the Fixes: tag in the patches they are backporting.

And that's really bad...