This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ip6_gre: ip6gre_tap device should keep dst
to the 4.13-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-ip6gre_tap-device-should-keep-dst.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.13 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 Mon Oct 9 09:32:35 CEST 2017
From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 13:23:50 +0800
Subject: ip6_gre: ip6gre_tap device should keep dst
From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 2d40557cc702ed8e5edd9bd422233f86652d932e ]
The patch 'ip_gre: ipgre_tap device should keep dst' fixed
a issue that ipgre_tap mtu couldn't be updated in tx path.
The same fix is needed for ip6gre_tap as well.
Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
@@ -1311,6 +1311,7 @@ static void ip6gre_tap_setup(struct net_
dev->features |= NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL;
dev->priv_flags &= ~IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING;
dev->priv_flags |= IFF_LIVE_ADDR_CHANGE;
+ netif_keep_dst(dev);
}
static bool ip6gre_netlink_encap_parms(struct nlattr *data[],
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.13/ip6_tunnel-do-not-allow-loading-ip6_tunnel-if-ipv6-is-disabled-in-cmdline.patch
queue-4.13/ip6_gre-ip6gre_tap-device-should-keep-dst.patch
queue-4.13/ip6_gre-skb_push-ipv6hdr-before-packing-the-header-in-ip6gre_header.patch
queue-4.13/ip6_tunnel-update-mtu-properly-for-arphrd_ether-tunnel-device-in-tx-path.patch