[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "ipv6: gre: fix wrong skb->protocol in WCCP" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Mon Dec 15 19:17:30 UTC 2014


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

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

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt13.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From dafa5cc8b4bae630bbafb7b98ff5b83acaff3fde Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yuri Chislov <yuri.chislov at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 11:25:15 +0100
Subject: ipv6: gre: fix wrong skb->protocol in WCCP

[ 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 at mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Yuri Chislov <yuri.chislov at gmail.com>
Tested-by: Yuri Chislov <yuri.chislov at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
index 3355b76..580dd23 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
@@ -511,11 +511,11 @@ static int ip6gre_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb)

 		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;
 		}
--
1.9.1





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