On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 10:04:53AM +0100, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:

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

batman-adv: fix splat on disabling an interface

to the 4.8-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summ...

The filename of the patch is: batman-adv-fix-splat-on-disabling-an-interface.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From 9799c50372b23ed774791bdb87d700f1286ee8a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Linus=20L=C3=BCssing?= linus.luessing@c0d3.blue Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2016 01:43:08 +0200 Subject: batman-adv: fix splat on disabling an interface [...]

Does anyone know whether I should mail Greg, asking him not to apply it? Or is the revert of this commit supposed to trickle through soon anyways?