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Patch "net: vrf: Fix setting NLM_F_EXCL flag when adding l3mdev rule" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

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

net: vrf: Fix setting NLM_F_EXCL flag when adding l3mdev rule

to the 4.9-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:
net-vrf-fix-setting-nlm_f_excl-flag-when-adding-l3mdev-rule.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

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

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From foo@baz Sat Apr 29 08:22:13 CEST 2017

From: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 10:57:15 -0600
Subject: net: vrf: Fix setting NLM_F_EXCL flag when adding l3mdev rule

From: David Ahern <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 426c87caa2b4578b43cd3f689f02c65b743b2559 ]

Only need 1 l3mdev FIB rule. Fix setting NLM_F_EXCL in the nlmsghdr.

Fixes 1aa6c4f6b8cd8 ("net: vrf: Add l3mdev rules on first device create")
---
 drivers/net/vrf.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
drivers/net/vrf.c +1 -1
@@ -1124,7 +1124,7 @@ static int vrf_fib_rule(const struct net
 		goto nla_put_failure;
 
 	/* rule only needs to appear once */
-	nlh->nlmsg_flags &= NLM_F_EXCL;
+	nlh->nlmsg_flags |= NLM_F_EXCL;
 
 	frh = nlmsg_data(nlh);
 	memset(frh, 0, sizeof(*frh));

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

queue-4.9/ipv6-fix-idev-addr_list-corruption.patch queue-4.9/net-ipv6-regenerate-host-route-if-moved-to-gc-list.patch queue-4.9/net-ipv6-rtf_pcpu-should-not-be-settable-from-userspace.patch queue-4.9/net-vrf-fix-setting-nlm_f_excl-flag-when-adding-l3mdev-rule.patch