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

    6lowpan: Fix endianness issue in is_addr_link_local().

to the 3.8-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:
     6lowpan-fix-endianness-issue-in-is_addr_link_local.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.

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


>From ad06d6dfb70a018be6e1da740aff32ec97933162 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 09:11:57 +0000
Subject: 6lowpan: Fix endianness issue in is_addr_link_local().


From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 9026c4927254f5bea695cc3ef2e255280e6a3011 ]

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
 net/ieee802154/6lowpan.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.h
+++ b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.h
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
        (memcmp(addr1, addr2, length >> 3) == 0)
 
 /* local link, i.e. FE80::/10 */
-#define is_addr_link_local(a) (((a)->s6_addr16[0]) == 0x80FE)
+#define is_addr_link_local(a) (((a)->s6_addr16[0]) == htons(0xFE80))
 
 /*
  * check whether we can compress the IID to 16 bits,


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

queue-3.8/net-ipv6-don-t-purge-default-router-if-accept_ra-2.patch
queue-3.8/ipv6-stop-multicast-forwarding-to-process-interface-scoped-addresses.patch
queue-3.8/6lowpan-fix-endianness-issue-in-is_addr_link_local.patch
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