Patch "net: bridge: don't increment tx_dropped in br_do_proxy_arp" 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

net: bridge: don't increment tx_dropped in br_do_proxy_arp

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:
net-bridge-don-t-increment-tx_dropped-in-br_do_proxy_arp.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 85a3d4a9356b595d5440c3f1bf07ee7cecca1567 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 17:44:29 +0200
Subject: net: bridge: don't increment tx_dropped in br_do_proxy_arp

From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <[email protected]>

commit 85a3d4a9356b595d5440c3f1bf07ee7cecca1567 upstream.

pskb_may_pull may fail due to various reasons (e.g. alloc failure), but the skb isn't changed/dropped and processing continues so we shouldn't increment tx_dropped.

---
 net/bridge/br_input.c |    7 ++-----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

@@ -78,13 +78,10 @@ static void br_do_proxy_arp(struct sk_bu
 
 	BR_INPUT_SKB_CB(skb)->proxyarp_replied = false;
 
-	if (dev->flags & IFF_NOARP)
+	if ((dev->flags & IFF_NOARP) ||
+	    !pskb_may_pull(skb, arp_hdr_len(dev)))
 		return;
 
-	if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, arp_hdr_len(dev))) {
-		dev->stats.tx_dropped++;
-		return;
-	}
 	parp = arp_hdr(skb);
 
 	if (parp->ar_pro != htons(ETH_P_IP) ||

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

queue-4.4/bonding-prevent-out-of-bound-accesses.patch queue-4.4/net-bridge-don-t-increment-tx_dropped-in-br_do_proxy_arp.patch