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

ipv6: old_dport should be a __be16 in __ip6_datagram_connect()

to the 4.15-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: ipv6-old_dport-should-be-a-__be16-in-__ip6_datagram_connect.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 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 Wed Mar 28 18:37:51 CEST 2018

From: Stefano Brivio sbrivio@redhat.com Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 11:24:58 +0100 Subject: ipv6: old_dport should be a __be16 in __ip6_datagram_connect()

From: Stefano Brivio sbrivio@redhat.com

[ Upstream commit 5f2fb802eee1df0810b47ea251942fe3fd36589a ]

Fixes: 2f987a76a977 ("net: ipv6: keep sk status consistent after datagram connect failure") Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio sbrivio@redhat.com Acked-by: Paolo Abeni pabeni@redhat.com Acked-by: Guillaume Nault g.nault@alphalink.fr Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- net/ipv6/datagram.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/ipv6/datagram.c +++ b/net/ipv6/datagram.c @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ int __ip6_datagram_connect(struct sock * struct in6_addr *daddr, old_daddr; __be32 fl6_flowlabel = 0; __be32 old_fl6_flowlabel; - __be32 old_dport; + __be16 old_dport; int addr_type; int err;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sbrivio@redhat.com are

queue-4.15/ipv6-fix-access-to-non-linear-packet-in-ndisc_fill_redirect_hdr_option.patch queue-4.15/ipv6-old_dport-should-be-a-__be16-in-__ip6_datagram_connect.patch queue-4.15/ipv6-reflect-mtu-changes-on-pmtu-of-exceptions-for-mtu-less-routes.patch