Patch "Revert: "ip6_tunnel: Update skb->protocol to ETH_P_IPV6 in ip6_tnl_xmit()"" 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

    Revert: "ip6_tunnel: Update skb->protocol to ETH_P_IPV6 in ip6_tnl_xmit()"

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:
revert-ip6_tunnel-update-skb-protocol-to-eth_p_ipv6-in-ip6_tnl_xmit.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: Eli Cooper <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 10:05:12 +0800
Subject: Revert: "ip6_tunnel: Update skb->protocol to ETH_P_IPV6 in ip6_tnl_xmit()"

From: Eli Cooper <[email protected]>

commit 80d1106aeaf689ab5fdf33020c5fecd269b31c88 upstream.

This reverts commit ae148b085876fa771d9ef2c05f85d4b4bf09ce0d ("ip6_tunnel: Update skb->protocol to ETH_P_IPV6 in ip6_tnl_xmit()").

skb->protocol is now set in __ip_local_out() and __ip6_local_out() before dst_output() is called. It is no longer necessary to do it for each tunnel.

---
 net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

@@ -1143,7 +1143,6 @@ int ip6_tnl_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, st
 	if (err)
 		return err;
 
-	skb->protocol = htons(ETH_P_IPV6);
 	skb_push(skb, sizeof(struct ipv6hdr));
 	skb_reset_network_header(skb);
 	ipv6h = ipv6_hdr(skb);

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

queue-4.8/ipv6-set-skb-protocol-properly-for-local-output.patch queue-4.8/ipv4-set-skb-protocol-properly-for-local-output.patch queue-4.8/revert-ip6_tunnel-update-skb-protocol-to-eth_p_ipv6-in-ip6_tnl_xmit.patch