This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ip6_gre: Avoid updating tunnel->tun_hlen in __gre6_xmit() to the 5.15-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: ip6_gre-avoid-updating-tunnel-tun_hlen-in-__gre6_xmi.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 6ac5e57c32ec563f33a86e37a8ff184a446fe9c2 Author: Peilin Ye <peilin.ye@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Apr 14 13:34:26 2022 -0700 ip6_gre: Avoid updating tunnel->tun_hlen in __gre6_xmit() [ Upstream commit f40c064e933d7787ca7411b699504d7a2664c1f5 ] Do not update tunnel->tun_hlen in data plane code. Use a local variable instead, just like "tunnel_hlen" in net/ipv4/ip_gre.c:gre_fb_xmit(). Co-developed-by: Cong Wang <cong.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <cong.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peilin Ye <peilin.ye@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c index 466a5610e3ca..288720838329 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c @@ -743,6 +743,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t __gre6_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct ip_tunnel_info *tun_info; const struct ip_tunnel_key *key; __be16 flags; + int tun_hlen; tun_info = skb_tunnel_info_txcheck(skb); if (IS_ERR(tun_info) || @@ -760,9 +761,9 @@ static netdev_tx_t __gre6_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, dsfield = key->tos; flags = key->tun_flags & (TUNNEL_CSUM | TUNNEL_KEY | TUNNEL_SEQ); - tunnel->tun_hlen = gre_calc_hlen(flags); + tun_hlen = gre_calc_hlen(flags); - gre_build_header(skb, tunnel->tun_hlen, + gre_build_header(skb, tun_hlen, flags, protocol, tunnel_id_to_key32(tun_info->key.tun_id), (flags & TUNNEL_SEQ) ? htonl(tunnel->o_seqno++)