This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
vxlan: fix incorrect initializer in union vxlan_addr
to the 3.16-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:
vxlan-fix-incorrect-initializer-in-union-vxlan_addr.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.16 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 Sun Oct 12 20:11:55 CEST 2014
From: Gerhard Stenzel <gstenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 21:34:16 +0200
Subject: vxlan: fix incorrect initializer in union vxlan_addr
From: Gerhard Stenzel <gstenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit a45e92a599e77ee6a850eabdd0141633fde03915 ]
The first initializer in the following
union vxlan_addr ipa = {
.sin.sin_addr.s_addr = tip,
.sa.sa_family = AF_INET,
};
is optimised away by the compiler, due to the second initializer,
therefore initialising .sin.sin_addr.s_addr always to 0.
This results in netlink messages indicating a L3 miss never contain the
missed IP address. This was observed with GCC 4.8 and 4.9. I do not know about previous versions.
The problem affects user space programs relying on an IP address being
sent as part of a netlink message indicating a L3 miss.
Changing
.sa.sa_family = AF_INET,
to
.sin.sin_family = AF_INET,
fixes the problem.
Signed-off-by: Gerhard Stenzel <gerhard.stenzel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/vxlan.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/vxlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vxlan.c
@@ -1325,7 +1325,7 @@ static int arp_reduce(struct net_device
} else if (vxlan->flags & VXLAN_F_L3MISS) {
union vxlan_addr ipa = {
.sin.sin_addr.s_addr = tip,
- .sa.sa_family = AF_INET,
+ .sin.sin_family = AF_INET,
};
vxlan_ip_miss(dev, &ipa);
@@ -1486,7 +1486,7 @@ static int neigh_reduce(struct net_devic
} else if (vxlan->flags & VXLAN_F_L3MISS) {
union vxlan_addr ipa = {
.sin6.sin6_addr = msg->target,
- .sa.sa_family = AF_INET6,
+ .sin6.sin6_family = AF_INET6,
};
vxlan_ip_miss(dev, &ipa);
@@ -1519,7 +1519,7 @@ static bool route_shortcircuit(struct ne
if (!n && (vxlan->flags & VXLAN_F_L3MISS)) {
union vxlan_addr ipa = {
.sin.sin_addr.s_addr = pip->daddr,
- .sa.sa_family = AF_INET,
+ .sin.sin_family = AF_INET,
};
vxlan_ip_miss(dev, &ipa);
@@ -1540,7 +1540,7 @@ static bool route_shortcircuit(struct ne
if (!n && (vxlan->flags & VXLAN_F_L3MISS)) {
union vxlan_addr ipa = {
.sin6.sin6_addr = pip6->daddr,
- .sa.sa_family = AF_INET6,
+ .sin6.sin6_family = AF_INET6,
};
vxlan_ip_miss(dev, &ipa);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from gstenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.16/vxlan-fix-incorrect-initializer-in-union-vxlan_addr.patch
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