Patch "act_mirred: clear sender cpu before sending to tx" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree

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

    act_mirred: clear sender cpu before sending to tx

to the 4.1-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:
     act_mirred-clear-sender-cpu-before-sending-to-tx.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From foo@baz Thu Oct 22 17:25:37 PDT 2015
From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 17:23:47 -0700
Subject: act_mirred: clear sender cpu before sending to tx

From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit d40496a56430eac0d330378816954619899fe303 ]

Similar to commit c29390c6dfee ("xps: must clear sender_cpu before forwarding")
the skb->sender_cpu needs to be cleared when moving from Rx
Tx, otherwise kernel could crash.

Fixes: 2bd82484bb4c ("xps: fix xps for stacked devices")
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <cwang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 net/sched/act_mirred.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/net/sched/act_mirred.c
+++ b/net/sched/act_mirred.c
@@ -166,6 +166,7 @@ static int tcf_mirred(struct sk_buff *sk
 
 	skb2->skb_iif = skb->dev->ifindex;
 	skb2->dev = dev;
+	skb_sender_cpu_clear(skb2);
 	err = dev_queue_xmit(skb2);
 
 out:


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx are

queue-4.1/act_mirred-clear-sender-cpu-before-sending-to-tx.patch
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