On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 11:04:52 -0800 Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> wrote:
> This fixes an old bug in iproute2's ss command because it was > reading slabinfo to get statistics. There isn't a better API > to do this, and one can argue that /proc is a UAPI that must > not change. > > Therefore this patch set adds a flag to slab to give another > reason to prevent merging, and then uses it in network code. > > The patches are against davem's linux-net tree and should also > goto stable as well. > > Stephen Hemminger (2): > slab: add flag to block merging of UAPI elements > net: mark slab's used by ss as UAPI > > include/linux/slab.h | 6 ++++++ > mm/slab_common.c | 2 +- > net/ipv4/tcp.c | 3 ++- > net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 2 +- > net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 2 +- > net/socket.c | 6 +++--- > 6 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) > The kbuild reports need more root cause investigation before applying.