Patch "ipmr/ip6mr: Initialize the last assert time of mfc entries." 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

ipmr/ip6mr: Initialize the last assert time of mfc entries.

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:
ipmr-ip6mr-initialize-the-last-assert-time-of-mfc-entries.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: Tom Goff <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 16:11:57 -0400
Subject: ipmr/ip6mr: Initialize the last assert time of mfc entries.

From: Tom Goff <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 70a0dec45174c976c64b4c8c1d0898581f759948 ]

This fixes wrong-interface signaling on 32-bit platforms for entries created when jiffies > 2^31 + MFC_ASSERT_THRESH.

---
 net/ipv4/ipmr.c  |    4 +++-
 net/ipv6/ip6mr.c |    1 +
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -882,8 +882,10 @@ static struct mfc_cache *ipmr_cache_allo
 {
 	struct mfc_cache *c = kmem_cache_zalloc(mrt_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
 
-	if (c)
+	if (c) {
+		c->mfc_un.res.last_assert = jiffies - MFC_ASSERT_THRESH - 1;
 		c->mfc_un.res.minvif = MAXVIFS;
+	}
 	return c;
 }
 

@@ -1074,6 +1074,7 @@ static struct mfc6_cache *ip6mr_cache_al
 	struct mfc6_cache *c = kmem_cache_zalloc(mrt_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!c)
 		return NULL;
+	c->mfc_un.res.last_assert = jiffies - MFC_ASSERT_THRESH - 1;
 	c->mfc_un.res.minvif = MAXMIFS;
 	return c;
 }

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

queue-4.4/ipmr-ip6mr-initialize-the-last-assert-time-of-mfc-entries.patch