Patch "act_mirred: clear sender cpu before sending to tx" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree
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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
act_mirred: clear sender cpu before sending to tx
to the 4.1-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:
act_mirred-clear-sender-cpu-before-sending-to-tx.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 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 Thu Oct 22 17:25:37 PDT 2015
From: WANG Cong <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 17:23:47 -0700
Subject: act_mirred: clear sender cpu before sending to tx
From: WANG Cong <[email protected]>
[ Upstream commit d40496a56430eac0d330378816954619899fe303 ]
Similar to commit c29390c6dfee ("xps: must clear sender_cpu before forwarding") the skb->sender_cpu needs to be cleared when moving from Rx
Tx, otherwise kernel could crash.
--- net/sched/act_mirred.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
net/sched/act_mirred.c +1 -0
@@ -166,6 +166,7 @@ static int tcf_mirred(struct sk_buff *sk skb2->skb_iif = skb->dev->ifindex; skb2->dev = dev; +skb_sender_cpu_clear (skb2); err =dev_queue_xmit (skb2); out:
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-4.1/act_mirred-clear-sender-cpu-before-sending-to-tx.patch