Re: [PATCH net v2] net: clear the dst when changing skb protocol

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On Sat, 7 Jun 2025 23:33:39 +0200 Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:
> 1 meta question: as this is a fix and will thus be backported into
> 5.4+ LTS, should this be split into two patches? Either making the
> test a follow up, or even going with only the crash fix in patch 1 and
> putting the 4-in-4 and 6-in-6 behavioural change in patch 2?  We'd end
> up in the same state at tip of tree... but it would affect the LTS
> backports.  Honestly I'm not even sure what's best.

:) Did we go from wondering if we can strip dst unconditionally to
wondering if stripping it on encap/decap may introduce regressions?

I suppose it may be useful to split, just to make it clear which
portion of the change is the crash fix and which one is just because
we think it's more consistent.
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