Patch "ipv6: gre: fix wrong skb->protocol in WCCP" has been added to the 3.17-stable tree

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

    ipv6: gre: fix wrong skb->protocol in WCCP

to the 3.17-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-gre-fix-wrong-skb-protocol-in-wccp.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.17 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 Dec 14 08:37:01 PST 2014
From: Yuri Chislov <yuri.chislov@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 11:25:15 +0100
Subject: ipv6: gre: fix wrong skb->protocol in WCCP

From: Yuri Chislov <yuri.chislov@xxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit be6572fdb1bfbe23b2624d477de50af50b02f5d6 ]

When using GRE redirection in WCCP, it sets the wrong skb->protocol,
that is, ETH_P_IP instead of ETH_P_IPV6 for the encapuslated traffic.

Fixes: c12b395a4664 ("gre: Support GRE over IPv6")
Cc: Dmitry Kozlov <xeb@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yuri Chislov <yuri.chislov@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Yuri Chislov <yuri.chislov@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
@@ -502,11 +502,11 @@ static int ip6gre_rcv(struct sk_buff *sk
 
 		skb->protocol = gre_proto;
 		/* WCCP version 1 and 2 protocol decoding.
-		 * - Change protocol to IP
+		 * - Change protocol to IPv6
 		 * - When dealing with WCCPv2, Skip extra 4 bytes in GRE header
 		 */
 		if (flags == 0 && gre_proto == htons(ETH_P_WCCP)) {
-			skb->protocol = htons(ETH_P_IP);
+			skb->protocol = htons(ETH_P_IPV6);
 			if ((*(h + offset) & 0xF0) != 0x40)
 				offset += 4;
 		}


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yuri.chislov@xxxxxxxxx are

queue-3.17/ipv6-gre-fix-wrong-skb-protocol-in-wccp.patch
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