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 3.11-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-3.11 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 1f1d004aa8782a010bb32a2c42050e522dee38f0 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
@@ -1316,7 +1316,7 @@ 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-3.11/ip-generate-unique-ip-identificator-if-local-fragmentation-is-allowed.patch
queue-3.11/ip-use-ip_hdr-in-__ip_make_skb-to-retrieve-ip-header.patch
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html