Patch "ip: use ip_hdr() in __ip_make_skb() to retrieve IP header" has been added to the 3.10-stable tree

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

    ip: use ip_hdr() in __ip_make_skb() to retrieve IP header

to the 3.10-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:
     ip-use-ip_hdr-in-__ip_make_skb-to-retrieve-ip-header.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.

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


>From 082a8ea9f1c1a2f0f2c9631ce19ae6453a3aad6a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ansis Atteka <aatteka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 15:29:52 -0700
Subject: ip: use ip_hdr() in __ip_make_skb() to retrieve IP header

From: Ansis Atteka <aatteka@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 749154aa56b57652a282cbde57a57abc278d1205 ]

skb->data already points to IP header, but for the sake of
consistency we can also use ip_hdr() to retrieve it.

Signed-off-by: Ansis Atteka <aatteka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 net/ipv4/ip_output.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
@@ -1324,7 +1324,7 @@ struct sk_buff *__ip_make_skb(struct soc
 	else
 		ttl = ip_select_ttl(inet, &rt->dst);
 
-	iph = (struct iphdr *)skb->data;
+	iph = ip_hdr(skb);
 	iph->version = 4;
 	iph->ihl = 5;
 	iph->tos = inet->tos;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from aatteka@xxxxxxxxxx are

queue-3.10/ip-generate-unique-ip-identificator-if-local-fragmentation-is-allowed.patch
queue-3.10/ip-use-ip_hdr-in-__ip_make_skb-to-retrieve-ip-header.patch
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