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

    packet: always probe for transport header

to the 4.1-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:
     packet-always-probe-for-transport-header.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From foo@baz Fri Dec 11 11:39:13 EST 2015
From: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 23:25:41 +0100
Subject: packet: always probe for transport header

From: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 8fd6c80d9dd938ca338c70698533a7e304752846 ]

We concluded that the skb_probe_transport_header() should better be
called unconditionally. Avoiding the call into the flow dissector has
also not really much to do with the direct xmit mode.

While it seems that only virtio_net code makes use of GSO from non
RX/TX ring packet socket paths, we should probe for a transport header
nevertheless before they hit devices.

Reference: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/386173/
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
 net/packet/af_packet.c |    7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/net/packet/af_packet.c
+++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c
@@ -2230,8 +2230,7 @@ static int tpacket_fill_skb(struct packe
                len = ((to_write > len_max) ? len_max : to_write);
        }
 
-       if (!packet_use_direct_xmit(po))
-               skb_probe_transport_header(skb, 0);
+       skb_probe_transport_header(skb, 0);
 
        return tp_len;
 }
@@ -2583,8 +2582,8 @@ static int packet_snd(struct socket *soc
                len += vnet_hdr_len;
        }
 
-       if (!packet_use_direct_xmit(po))
-               skb_probe_transport_header(skb, reserve);
+       skb_probe_transport_header(skb, reserve);
+
        if (unlikely(extra_len == 4))
                skb->no_fcs = 1;
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.1/packet-infer-protocol-from-ethernet-header-if-unset.patch
queue-4.1/bpf-array-fix-heap-out-of-bounds-access-when-updating-elements.patch
queue-4.1/ipv6-sctp-implement-sctp_v6_destroy_sock.patch
queue-4.1/packet-only-allow-extra-vlan-len-on-ethernet-devices.patch
queue-4.1/net-scm-fix-pax-detected-msg_controllen-overflow-in-scm_detach_fds.patch
queue-4.1/packet-fix-tpacket_snd-max-frame-len.patch
queue-4.1/packet-always-probe-for-transport-header.patch
queue-4.1/packet-do-skb_probe_transport_header-when-we-actually-have-data.patch
queue-4.1/tools-net-use-include-uapi-with-__exported_headers__.patch
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