This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ipv6: fix checksum annotation in udp6_csum_init 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: ipv6-fix-checksum-annotation-in-udp6_csum_init.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 <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From c148d16369ff0095eca950d17968ba1d56a47b53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2016 21:15:37 +0200 Subject: ipv6: fix checksum annotation in udp6_csum_init From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit c148d16369ff0095eca950d17968ba1d56a47b53 upstream. Cc: Tom Herbert <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 4068579e1e098fa ("net: Implmement RFC 6936 (zero RX csums for UDP/IPv6") Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv6/ip6_checksum.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_checksum.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_checksum.c @@ -84,9 +84,12 @@ int udp6_csum_init(struct sk_buff *skb, * we accept a checksum of zero here. When we find the socket * for the UDP packet we'll check if that socket allows zero checksum * for IPv6 (set by socket option). + * + * Note, we are only interested in != 0 or == 0, thus the + * force to int. */ - return skb_checksum_init_zero_check(skb, proto, uh->check, - ip6_compute_pseudo); + return (__force int)skb_checksum_init_zero_check(skb, proto, uh->check, + ip6_compute_pseudo); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(udp6_csum_init); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/ipv4-fix-checksum-annotation-in-udp4_csum_init.patch queue-4.4/ipv6-fix-checksum-annotation-in-udp6_csum_init.patch