Patch "ipv6: l2tp: fix a potential issue in l2tp_ip6_recv" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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

ipv6: l2tp: fix a potential issue in l2tp_ip6_recv

to the 4.4-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-l2tp-fix-a-potential-issue-in-l2tp_ip6_recv.patch

and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

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

From: Haishuang Yan <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 22:09:24 +0800
Subject: ipv6: l2tp: fix a potential issue in l2tp_ip6_recv

From: Haishuang Yan <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit be447f305494e019dfc37ea4cdf3b0e4200b4eba ]

pskb_may_pull() can change skb->data, so we have to load ptr/optr at the right place.

---
 net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c |    8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

@@ -135,12 +135,11 @@ static int l2tp_ip6_recv(struct sk_buff
 	struct l2tp_tunnel *tunnel = NULL;
 	int length;
 
-	/* Point to L2TP header */
-	optr = ptr = skb->data;
-
 	if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, 4))
 		goto discard;
 
+	/* Point to L2TP header */
+	optr = ptr = skb->data;
 	session_id = ntohl(*((__be32 *) ptr));
 	ptr += 4;
 

@@ -168,6 +167,9 @@ static int l2tp_ip6_recv(struct sk_buff
 		if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, length))
 			goto discard;
 
+		/* Point to L2TP header */
+		optr = ptr = skb->data;
+		ptr += 4;
 		pr_debug("%s: ip recv\n", tunnel->name);
 		print_hex_dump_bytes("", DUMP_PREFIX_OFFSET, ptr, length);
 	}

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

queue-4.4/bridge-allow-set-bridge-ageing-time-when-switchdev-disabled.patch queue-4.4/ipv4-l2tp-fix-a-potential-issue-in-l2tp_ip_recv.patch queue-4.4/ipv6-l2tp-fix-a-potential-issue-in-l2tp_ip6_recv.patch