This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ipv6: old_dport should be a __be16 in __ip6_datagram_connect() to the 4.14-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: ipv6-old_dport-should-be-a-__be16-in-__ip6_datagram_connect.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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 Wed Mar 28 18:38:30 CEST 2018 From: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 11:24:58 +0100 Subject: ipv6: old_dport should be a __be16 in __ip6_datagram_connect() From: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 5f2fb802eee1df0810b47ea251942fe3fd36589a ] Fixes: 2f987a76a977 ("net: ipv6: keep sk status consistent after datagram connect failure") Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv6/datagram.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/ipv6/datagram.c +++ b/net/ipv6/datagram.c @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ int __ip6_datagram_connect(struct sock * struct in6_addr *daddr, old_daddr; __be32 fl6_flowlabel = 0; __be32 old_fl6_flowlabel; - __be32 old_dport; + __be16 old_dport; int addr_type; int err; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sbrivio@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/ipv6-fix-access-to-non-linear-packet-in-ndisc_fill_redirect_hdr_option.patch queue-4.14/ipv6-old_dport-should-be-a-__be16-in-__ip6_datagram_connect.patch