Patch "vxlan: correctly validate VXLAN ID against VXLAN_N_VID" has been added to the 4.10-stable tree

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

vxlan: correctly validate VXLAN ID against VXLAN_N_VID

to the 4.10-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:
vxlan-correctly-validate-vxlan-id-against-vxlan_n_vid.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory.

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

From: Matthias Schiffer <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 17:19:41 +0100
Subject: vxlan: correctly validate VXLAN ID against VXLAN_N_VID

From: Matthias Schiffer <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 4e37d6911f36545b286d15073f6f2222f840e81c ]

The incorrect check caused an off-by-one error: the maximum VID 0xffffff was unusable.

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

@@ -2626,7 +2626,7 @@ static int vxlan_validate(struct nlattr
 
 	if (data[IFLA_VXLAN_ID]) {
 		__u32 id = nla_get_u32(data[IFLA_VXLAN_ID]);
-		if (id >= VXLAN_VID_MASK)
+		if (id >= VXLAN_N_VID)
 			return -ERANGE;
 	}
 

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

queue-4.10/vxlan-correctly-validate-vxlan-id-against-vxlan_n_vid.patch