Patch "esp4: Fix integrity verification when ESN are used" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

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

esp4: Fix integrity verification when ESN are used

to the 4.8-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:
esp4-fix-integrity-verification-when-esn-are-used.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.

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

From: Tobias Brunner <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 17:05:20 +0100
Subject: esp4: Fix integrity verification when ESN are used

From: Tobias Brunner <[email protected]>

commit 7c7fedd51c02f4418e8b2eed64bdab601f882aa4 upstream.

When handling inbound packets, the two halves of the sequence number stored on the skb are already in network order.

---
 net/ipv4/esp4.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ static int esp_input(struct xfrm_state *
 		esph = (void *)skb_push(skb, 4);
 		*seqhi = esph->spi;
 		esph->spi = esph->seq_no;
-		esph->seq_no = htonl(XFRM_SKB_CB(skb)->seq.input.hi);
+		esph->seq_no = XFRM_SKB_CB(skb)->seq.input.hi;
 		aead_request_set_callback(req, 0, esp_input_done_esn, skb);
 	}
 

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

queue-4.8/esp4-fix-integrity-verification-when-esn-are-used.patch queue-4.8/esp6-fix-integrity-verification-when-esn-are-used.patch