Patch "ipv6: pointer math error in ip6_tnl_parse_tlv_enc_lim()" 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

ipv6: pointer math error in ip6_tnl_parse_tlv_enc_lim()

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:
ipv6-pointer-math-error-in-ip6_tnl_parse_tlv_enc_lim.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: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 11:46:32 +0300
Subject: ipv6: pointer math error in ip6_tnl_parse_tlv_enc_lim()

From: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 63117f09c768be05a0bf465911297dc76394f686 ]

Casting is a high precedence operation but "off" and "i" are in terms of bytes so we need to have some parenthesis here.

---
 net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ __u16 ip6_tnl_parse_tlv_enc_lim(struct s
 				if (i + sizeof(*tel) > optlen)
 					break;
 
-				tel = (struct ipv6_tlv_tnl_enc_lim *) skb->data + off + i;
+				tel = (struct ipv6_tlv_tnl_enc_lim *)(skb->data + off + i);
 				/* return index of option if found and valid */
 				if (tel->type == IPV6_TLV_TNL_ENCAP_LIMIT &&
 				    tel->length == 1)

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

queue-4.4/ipv6-pointer-math-error-in-ip6_tnl_parse_tlv_enc_lim.patch