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Patch "vxlan: do not age static remote mac entries" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

vxlan: do not age static remote mac entries

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
vxlan-do-not-age-static-remote-mac-entries.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From foo@baz Mon Jul 3 13:22:16 CEST 2017

From: Balakrishnan Raman <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 20:44:33 -0800
Subject: vxlan: do not age static remote mac entries

From: Balakrishnan Raman <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit efb5f68f32995c146944a9d4257c3cf8eae2c4a1 ]

Mac aging is applicable only for dynamically learnt remote mac entries. Check for user configured static remote mac entries and skip aging.

---
 drivers/net/vxlan.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
drivers/net/vxlan.c +1 -1
@@ -2240,7 +2240,7 @@ static void vxlan_cleanup(unsigned long
 				= container_of(p, struct vxlan_fdb, hlist);
 			unsigned long timeout;
 
-			if (f->state & NUD_PERMANENT)
+			if (f->state & (NUD_PERMANENT | NUD_NOARP))
 				continue;
 
 			timeout = f->used + vxlan->cfg.age_interval * HZ;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/vxlan-do-not-age-static-remote-mac-entries.patch