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Patch "ppp: call skb_checksum_complete_unset in ppp_receive_frame" has been added to the 3.19-stable tree

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

ppp: call skb_checksum_complete_unset in ppp_receive_frame

to the 3.19-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:
ppp-call-skb_checksum_complete_unset-in-ppp_receive_frame.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.19 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 Wed Apr 29 12:00:18 CEST 2015

From: Tom Herbert <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 14:10:05 -0700
Subject: ppp: call skb_checksum_complete_unset in ppp_receive_frame

From: Tom Herbert <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 3dfb05340ec6676e6fc71a9ae87bbbe66d3c2998 ]

Call checksum_complete_unset in PPP receive to discard checksum-complete value. PPP does not pull checksum for headers and also modifies packet as in VJ compression.

---
 drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c +1 -0
@@ -1716,6 +1716,7 @@ ppp_receive_frame(struct ppp *ppp, struc
 {
 	/* note: a 0-length skb is used as an error indication */
 	if (skb->len > 0) {
+		skb_checksum_complete_unset(skb);
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPP_MULTILINK
 		/* XXX do channel-level decompression here */
 		if (PPP_PROTO(skb) == PPP_MP)

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

queue-3.19/ppp-call-skb_checksum_complete_unset-in-ppp_receive_frame.patch queue-3.19/net-add-skb_checksum_complete_unset.patch