Patch "ip6_tunnel: Update skb->protocol to ETH_P_IPV6 in ip6_tnl_xmit()" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

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

    ip6_tunnel: Update skb->protocol to ETH_P_IPV6 in ip6_tnl_xmit()

to the 4.8-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:
ip6_tunnel-update-skb-protocol-to-eth_p_ipv6-in-ip6_tnl_xmit.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.

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

From: Eli Cooper <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 10:11:09 +0800
Subject: ip6_tunnel: Update skb->protocol to ETH_P_IPV6 in ip6_tnl_xmit()

From: Eli Cooper <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit ae148b085876fa771d9ef2c05f85d4b4bf09ce0d ]

This patch updates skb->protocol to ETH_P_IPV6 in ip6_tnl_xmit() when an IPv6 header is installed to a socket buffer.

This is not a cosmetic change. Without updating this value, GSO packets transmitted through an ipip6 tunnel have the protocol of ETH_P_IP and skb_mac_gso_segment() will attempt to call gso_segment() for IPv4, which results in the packets being dropped.

---
 net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

@@ -1134,6 +1134,7 @@ int ip6_tnl_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, st
 	if (err)
 		return err;
 
+	skb->protocol = htons(ETH_P_IPV6);
 	skb_push(skb, sizeof(struct ipv6hdr));
 	skb_reset_network_header(skb);
 	ipv6h = ipv6_hdr(skb);

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

queue-4.8/ip6_tunnel-update-skb-protocol-to-eth_p_ipv6-in-ip6_tnl_xmit.patch