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

net: vrf: correct FRA_L3MDEV encode type

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: net-vrf-correct-fra_l3mdev-encode-type.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Tue Nov 21 13:08:13 CET 2017

From: Jeff Barnhill 0xeffeff@gmail.com Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 14:58:09 +0000 Subject: net: vrf: correct FRA_L3MDEV encode type

From: Jeff Barnhill 0xeffeff@gmail.com

[ Upstream commit 18129a24983906eaf2a2d448ce4b83e27091ebe2 ]

FRA_L3MDEV is defined as U8, but is being added as a U32 attribute. On big endian architecture, this results in the l3mdev entry not being added to the FIB rules.

Fixes: 1aa6c4f6b8cd8 ("net: vrf: Add l3mdev rules on first device create") Signed-off-by: Jeff Barnhill 0xeffeff@gmail.com Acked-by: David Ahern dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/vrf.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/vrf.c +++ b/drivers/net/vrf.c @@ -1129,7 +1129,7 @@ static int vrf_fib_rule(const struct net frh->family = family; frh->action = FR_ACT_TO_TBL;

- if (nla_put_u32(skb, FRA_L3MDEV, 1)) + if (nla_put_u8(skb, FRA_L3MDEV, 1)) goto nla_put_failure;

if (nla_put_u32(skb, FRA_PRIORITY, FIB_RULE_PREF))

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from 0xeffeff@gmail.com are

queue-4.9/net-vrf-correct-fra_l3mdev-encode-type.patch