Re: [PATCH stable 6.1] devlink: Fix RCU stall when unregistering a devlink instance

On Tue, Oct 01, 2024 at 02:20:35PM +0300, Ido Schimmel wrote:

I read the stable rules and I am not providing an "upstream commit ID" since the code in upstream has been reworked, making this fix irrelevant. The only affected stable kernel is 6.1.y.

Could you please add some information about *how* the code has changed so backporting became infeasible? In our experience, custom backports tend to cause more pain than what they fix, so at least our future-selves could use some pointers around what happened here.